Hello everyone. So in
this video we are going to see how to
get help for any scripts in nmap.
So nmap consists of a very powerful feature
of nmap scripting engine and there are
a lot of number of scripts into that.
So how to identify that what script is
meant for what particular purpose and what can
we do with that?
So for that you can always use the help feature of
nmap.
So the syntax of doing this scan is nmap the target
IP address.
followed by hyphen hyphen script hyphen help
equals to the script name that you want the help
for
you can add a hyphen V to see the output inverse
mode.
The example of doing this particular scan is in map.
Target IP address hyphen hyphen
script hyphen help equals to the script
name. You want the help for?
So, let's see this particular script in action.
screen
the last scan that we did was default scan. Now.
We are going to type hyphen script hyphen help equals
to let's take the help of
This particular script, which is HTTP methods
and let's see what happens with this particular script.
I will just hit enter and you can see HTTP methods
is the script which comes under the
category. That is the default and the safe script
you can read about it. All the description
is given over here about the
safe script. Also, the reference
is given over here of os that
what are the what are the HTTP methods that are used for testing
purposes?
Through this way you can get help of any script that you
want.
so
let's
take help of one more script and let's see
how to use that script and
what can be identified.
by using that particular script
So the scan that we run was Hyphen hyphen
script hyphen help. So now we are going to
change the script name to another script. Let's say SSL enum
ciphers.
And I'm going to hit enter.
You can see we got the output. This is
a description that this particular script scans
for the SSL and TLS versions and
identified which SSL and
TLS versions are vulnerable.
You can read the description over here and also they have
given a reference over here.
So I hope you guys understood this how to use the
help feature of nmap. Thank you.