Managing multiple scanning profiles with Zenmap

Scanning profiles are a combination of Nmap arguments that can be used to save time and the need to remember argument names when launching an Nmap scan.

This recipe is about adding, editing, and deleting a scanning profile in Zenmap.

How to do it...

Let's add a new profile for scanning web servers:

  1. Launch Zenmap.
  2. Click on Profile on the main toolbar.
  3. Click on New Profile or Command (Ctrl + P). The Profile Editor will be launched.
  4. Enter a profile name and a description on the Profile tab.
  5. Enable Version detection and disable reverse DNS resolution on the Scan tab.
  6. Enable the following scripts on the Scripting tab:
    • hostmap
    • http-default-accounts
    • http-enum
    • http-favicon
    • http-headers
    • http-methods
    • http-trace
    • http-php-version ...

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