[nmap] is it possible to get the MAC address for machine using nmap

I have a list of remote machines in a text files. Can I know their MAC addresses using nmap ?

Just the standard scan will return the MAC.

nmap -sS target

Some scripts give you what you're looking for. If the nodes are running Samba or Windows, nbstat.nse will show you the MAC address and vendor.

sudo nmap -sU -script=nbstat.nse -p137 --open 172.192.10.0/23 -oX 172.192.10.0.xml | grep MAC * | awk -F";" {'print $4'}

I'm not cool enough to be able to comment on a post. so I guess I need to make a new post. However the above recommendation of "sudo nmap -sn 192.168.0.0/24" is the best quickest method to get the all the MACs for the IPs on your local network/vlan/subnet What the OP doesnt mention, is the only way to get the MAC address this way, you MUST use sudo(or other super user privs i.e. windows admin) the command nmap -sn 192.168.0.0/24 will discover hosts on your network, however will not return the MACs as you are not in SU mode of operation.

With the recent version of nmap 6.40, it will automatically show you the MAC address. example:

nmap 192.168.0.1-255

this command will scan your network from 192.168.0.1 to 255 and will display the hosts with their MAC address on your network.

in case you want to display the mac address for a single client, use this command make sure you are on root or use "sudo"

sudo nmap -Pn 192.168.0.1

this command will display the host MAC address and the open ports.

hope that is helpful.

Yes, remember using root account.

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qq@peliosis:~$ sudo nmap -sP -n xxx.xxx.xxx

Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2016-06-24 16:45 CST

Nmap scan report for xxx.xxx.xxx

Host is up (0.0014s latency).

MAC Address: 00:13:D4:0F:F0:C1 (Asustek Computer)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.04 seconds

If you're using nmap, MAC addresses are only available if you're on the same network segment as the target. Newer versions of nmap will only show the MAC address to you if you're running as root.

i.e.:

sudo nmap -sP -n 192.168.0.0/24

Not using nmap... but this is an alternative...

arp -n|grep -i B0:D3:93|awk '{print $1}'

if $ ping -c 1 192.168.x.x 

returns

1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time ###ms

then you could possibly return the MAC address with arping, but ARP only works on your local network, not across the internet.

$ arping -c 1 192.168.x.x

ARPING 192.168.x.x from 192.168.x.x wlan0
Unicast reply from 192.168.x.x [AA:BB:CC:##:##:##]  192.772ms
Sent 1 probes (1 broadcast(s))
Received 1 response(s)

finally you could use the AA:BB:CC with the colons removed to identify a device from its vendor ID, for example.

$ grep -i '709E29' /usr/local/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes 
709E29 Sony Interactive Entertainment

Use snmp-interfaces.nse nmap script (written in lua) to get the MAC address of remote machine like this:

nmap -sU -p 161 -T4 -d -v -n -Pn --script snmp-interfaces 80.234.33.182

Completed NSE at 13:25, 2.69s elapsed
Nmap scan report for 80.234.33.182
Host is up, received user-set (0.078s latency).
Scanned at 2014-08-22 13:25:29 ???????? ????? (????) for 3s
PORT    STATE SERVICE REASON
161/udp open  snmp    udp-response
| snmp-interfaces: 
|   eth
|     MAC address: 00:50:60:03:81:c9 (Tandberg Telecom AS)
|     Type: ethernetCsmacd  Speed: 10 Mbps
|     Status: up
|     Traffic stats: 1.27 Gb sent, 53.91 Mb received
|   lo
|     Type: softwareLoopback  Speed: 0 Kbps
|     Status: up
|_    Traffic stats: 4.10 Kb sent, 4.10 Kb received

nmap can discover the MAC address of a remote target only if

• the target is on the same link as the machine nmap runs on, or
• the target leaks this information through SNMP, NetBIOS etc.

Another possibility comes with IPv6 if the target uses EUI-64 identifiers, then the MAC address can be deduced from the IP address.

Apart from the above possibilities, there is no reliable way to obtain the MAC address of a remote target with network scanning techniques.

In current releases of nmap you can use:

sudo nmap -sn 192.168.0.*

This will print the MAC addresses of all available hosts. Of course provide your own network, subnet and host id's.

Further explanation can be found here.