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Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition

You're reading from   Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838649357
Length 436 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Nmap Fundamentals 2. Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with Nmap's Family FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Network Scanning 4. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance Tasks 5. Chapter 5: Scanning Web Servers 6. Chapter 6: Scanning Databases 7. Chapter 7: Scanning Mail Servers 8. Chapter 8: Scanning Windows Systems 9. Chapter 9: Scanning ICS/SCADA Systems 10. Chapter 10: Scanning Mainframes 11. Chapter 11: Optimizing Scans 12. Chapter 12: Generating Scan Reports 13. Chapter 13: Writing Your Own NSE Scripts 14. Chapter 14: Exploiting Vulnerabilities with the Nmap Scripting Engine 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options 1. Appendix Β: Brute-Force Password Auditing Options 2. Appendix C: NSE Debugging 3. Appendix D: Additional Output Options 4. Appendix Ε: Introduction to Lua 5. Appendix F: References and Additional Reading

Generating PDF reports with fop

Users may also generate Nmap scan reports in PDF format. While Nmap does not support generating PDF reports out of the box, we could use a tool named fop to achieve this task.

The following recipe will show you how to generate PDF scan reports.

Getting ready

Format Object Printer (fop) is an Apache project used in this task to convert from XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) to a PDF file. You need to install this software before continuing. Please download it from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/fop and place the binary in your system path.

You will also need a style sheet shipped with Nmap. Please locate the nmap-fo.xsl file in your Nmap installation directory. If you don't have it, you may download it from https://github.com/nmap/nmap/blob/master/docs/nmap-fo.xsl.

How to do it...

Scan your target and save the output in XML mode:

$nmap -oX scanme.xml scanme.nmap.org

Now we use fop to apply the XSL style sheet...

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