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NDIFF(1)			 User Commands			      NDIFF(1)

NAME
       ndiff - Utility to compare the results of Nmap scans

SYNOPSIS
       ndiff [options] {a.xml} {b.xml}

DESCRIPTION
       Ndiff is a tool to aid in the comparison of Nmap scans. It takes two
       Nmap XML output files and prints the differences between them. The
       differences observed are:

       ·   Host states (e.g. up to down)

       ·   Port states (e.g. open to closed)

       ·   Service versions (from -sV)

       ·   OS matches (from -O)

       ·   Script output

       Ndiff, like the standard diff utility, compares two scans at a time.

OPTIONS SUMMARY
       -h, --help
	   Show a help message and exit.

       -v, --verbose
	   Include all hosts and ports in the output, not only those that have
	   changed.

       --text
	   Write output in human-readable text format.

       --xml
	   Write output in machine-readable XML format. The document structure
	   is defined in the file ndiff.dtd included in the distribution.

       Any other arguments are taken to be the names of Nmap XML output files.
       There must be exactly two.

EXAMPLE
       Let's use Ndiff to compare the output of two Nmap scans that use
       different options. In the first, we'll do a fast scan (-F), which scans
       fewer ports for speed. In the second, we'll scan the larger default set
       of ports, and run an NSE script.

	   # nmap -F scanme.nmap.org -oX scanme-1.xml
	   # nmap --script=html-title scanme.nmap.org -oX scanme-2.xml
	   $ ndiff -v scanme-1.xml scanme-2.xml
	   -Nmap 5.35DC1 at 2010-07-16 12:09
	   +Nmap 5.35DC1 at 2010-07-16 12:13

	    scanme.nmap.org (64.13.134.52):
	    Host is up.
	   -Not shown: 95 filtered ports
	   +Not shown: 993 filtered ports
	    PORT      STATE  SERVICE VERSION
	    22/tcp    open   ssh
	    25/tcp    closed smtp
	    53/tcp    open   domain
	   +70/tcp    closed gopher
	    80/tcp    open   http
	   +|_ html-title: Go ahead and ScanMe!
	    113/tcp   closed auth
	   +31337/tcp closed Elite

       Changes are marked by a - or + at the beginning of a line. We can see
       from the output that the scan without the -F fast scan option found two
       additional ports: 70 and 31337. The html-title script produced some
       additional output for port 80. From the port counts, we may infer that
       the fast scan scanned 100 ports (95 filtered, 3 open, and 2 closed),
       while the normal scan scanned 1000 (993 filtered, 3 open, and 4
       closed).

       The -v (or --verbose) option to Ndiff made it show even the ports that
       didn't change, like 22 and 25. Without -v, they would not have been
       shown.

OUTPUT
       There are two output modes: text and XML. Text output is the default,
       and can also be selected with the --text option. Text output resembles
       a unified diff of Nmap's normal terminal output. Each line is preceded
       by a character indicating whether and how it changed.  - means that the
       line was in the first scan but not in the second; + means it was in the
       second but not the first. A line that changed is represented by a -
       line followed by a + line. Lines that did not change are preceded by a
       blank space.

       Example 1 is an example of text output. Here, port 80 on the host
       photos-cache-snc1.facebook.com gained a service version (lighttpd
       1.5.0). The host at 69.63.179.25 changed its reverse DNS name. The host
       at 69.63.184.145 was completely absent in the first scan but came up in
       the second.

       Example 1. Ndiff text output

	   -Nmap 4.85BETA3 at 2009-03-15 11:00
	   +Nmap 4.85BETA4 at 2009-03-18 11:00

	    photos-cache-snc1.facebook.com (69.63.178.41):
	    Host is up.
	    Not shown: 99 filtered ports
	    PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION
	   -80/tcp open	 http
	   +80/tcp open	 http	 lighttpd 1.5.0

	   -cm.out.snc1.tfbnw.net (69.63.179.25):
	   +mailout-snc1.facebook.com (69.63.179.25):
	    Host is up.
	    Not shown: 100 filtered ports

	   +69.63.184.145:
	   +Host is up.
	   +Not shown: 98 filtered ports
	   +PORT    STATE SERVICE  VERSION
	   +80/tcp  open  http	   Apache httpd 1.3.41.fb1
	   +443/tcp open  ssl/http Apache httpd 1.3.41.fb1

       XML output, intended to be processed by other programs, is selected
       with the --xml option. It is based on Nmap's XML output, with a few
       additional elements to indicate differences. The XML document is
       enclosed in nmapdiff and scandiff elements. Host differences are
       enclosed in hostdiff tags and port differences are enclosed in portdiff
       tags. Inside a hostdiff or portdiff, a and b tags show the state of the
       host or port in the first scan (a) or the second scan (b).

       Example 2 shows the XML diff of the same scans shown above in
       Example 1. Notice how port 80 of photos-cache-snc1.facebook.com is
       enclosed in portdiff tags. For 69.63.179.25, the old hostname is in a
       tags and the new is in b. For the new host 69.63.184.145, there is a b
       in the hostdiff without a corresponding a, indicating that there was no
       information for the host in the first scan.

       Example 2. Ndiff XML output

	   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	   <nmapdiff version="1">
	     <scandiff>
	       <hostdiff>
		 <host>
		   <status state="up"/>
		   <address addr="69.63.178.41" addrtype="ipv4"/>
		   <hostnames>
		     <hostname name="photos-cache-snc1.facebook.com"/>
		   </hostnames>
		   <ports>
		     <extraports count="99" state="filtered"/>
		     <portdiff>
		       <port portid="80" protocol="tcp">
			 <state state="open"/>
			 <a>
			   <service name="http"/>
			 </a>
			 <b>
			   <service name="http" product="lighttpd" version="1.5.0"/>
			 </b>
		       </port>
		     </portdiff>
		   </ports>
		 </host>
	       </hostdiff>
	       <hostdiff>
		 <host>
		   <status state="up"/>
		   <address addr="69.63.179.25" addrtype="ipv4"/>
		   <hostnames>
		     <a>
		       <hostname name="cm.out.snc1.tfbnw.net"/>
		     </a>
		     <b>
		       <hostname name="mailout-snc1.facebook.com"/>
		     </b>
		   </hostnames>
		   <ports>
		     <extraports count="100" state="filtered"/>
		   </ports>
		 </host>
	       </hostdiff>
	       <hostdiff>
		 <b>
		   <host>
		     <status state="up"/>
		     <address addr="69.63.184.145" addrtype="ipv4"/>
		     <ports>
		       <extraports count="98" state="filtered"/>
		       <port portid="80" protocol="tcp">
			 <state state="open"/>
			 <service name="http" product="Apache httpd"
				  version="1.3.41.fb1"/>
		       </port>
		       <port portid="443" protocol="tcp">
			 <state state="open"/>
			 <service name="http" product="Apache httpd" tunnel="ssl"
				  version="1.3.41.fb1"/>
		       </port>
		     </ports>
		   </host>
		 </b>
	       </hostdiff>
	     </scandiff>
	   </nmapdiff>

PERIODIC DIFFS
       Using Nmap, Ndiff, cron, and a shell script, it's possible to scan a
       network daily and get email reports of the state of the network and
       changes since the previous scan.	 Example 3 shows the script that ties
       it together.

       Example 3. Scanning a network periodically with Ndiff and cron

	   #!/bin/sh
	   TARGETS="targets"
	   OPTIONS="-v -T4 -F -sV"
	   date=`date +%F`
	   cd /root/scans
	   nmap $OPTIONS $TARGETS -oA scan-$date > /dev/null
	   if [ -e scan-prev.xml ]; then
		   ndiff scan-prev.xml scan-$date.xml > diff-$date
		   echo "*** NDIFF RESULTS ***"
		   cat diff-$date
		   echo
	   fi
	   echo "*** NMAP RESULTS ***"
	   cat scan-$date.nmap
	   ln -sf scan-$date.xml scan-prev.xml

       If the script is saved as /root/scan-ndiff.sh, add the following line
       to root's crontab:

	   0 12 * * * /root/scan-ndiff.sh

EXIT CODE
       The exit code indicates whether the scans are equal.

       ·   0 means that the scans are the same in all the aspects Ndiff knows
	   about.

       ·   1 means that the scans differ.

       ·   2 indicates a runtime error, such as the failure to open a file.

BUGS
       Report bugs to the nmap-dev mailing list at nmap-dev@insecure.org.

HISTORY
       Ndiff started as a project by Michael Pattrick during the 2008 Google
       Summer of Code. Michael designed the program and led the discussion of
       its output formats. He wrote versions of the program in Perl and C++,
       but the summer ended shortly after it was decided to rewrite the
       program in Python for the sake of Windows (and Zenmap) compatibility.
       This Python version was written by David Fifield. James Levine
       released[1] a Perl script named Ndiff with similar functionality in
       2000.

AUTHORS
       David Fifield david@bamsoftware.com

       Michael Pattrick mpattrick@rhinovirus.org

WEB SITE
       http://nmap.org/ndiff/

NOTES
	1. released
	   http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2000/315

Ndiff				  11/29/2012			      NDIFF(1)
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