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Outbound Connections

You captured a connection snapshot from the host before you touched it. Inbound listeners are rarely the problem; the interesting part is what this machine is *calling out* to.

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Commands practised here

• grep -c LISTEN fCount listening sockets in a capture.
• grep ESTABLISHED fShow outbound connections. These are the interesting ones.
• ss -tulnpLive equivalent, with the owning process named.

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