SSH Service HELP request

[SentriumJames]

In some instances, the SSH service does not return the banner from a simple socket connection. It may just return a timeout, whereas nmap -sV will successfully send a HELP request to retrieve banner information.

I cannot provide the IP address this is affected by, but the solution is to perform the following. This may not always be required, so it might be worthwhile performing this on a second run when the first socket connection fails to return a banner.

def get_ssh_sock(ip, port, timeout):
    try:
        family = socket.AF_INET6 if ':' in ip else socket.AF_INET
        sock = socket.socket(family, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        sock.settimeout(timeout)
        sock.connect((ip, port))
        help_string = "HELP\n"
        sock.sendall(help_string.encode())
        return sock

This was just a temporary fix to get it to work on a host. But may be something to be aware of.

[xaitax]

Should be addressed now. You can add -u or --use-help-request. Please verify.