Didier Stevens

Sunday 19 May 2019

Quickpost: Retrieving an SSL Certificate with nmap

Filed under: Encryption,Networking,Quickpost — Didier Stevens @ 8:28

One of my first quickposts, more than 10 years ago, was an howto: using openssl to retrieve the certificate of a web site.

Since then, nmap has a scripting engine, and there is a script to check a certificate with nmap: ssl-cert.nse.

You just have to scan the site and port for which you want to check the certificate, like this: nmap -p 443 –script ssl-cert didierstevens.com

If you want the certificate too, increase verbosity with option -v:

Checking a certificate will not work if you scan a port that is not known to provide SSL/TLS:

In that case, you have to use service discovery (-sV):

 


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