Vulscan – Vulnerability Scanning with

Nmap in Kali Linux

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Vulscan is a free and open-source tool available on GitHub. Vulscan uses
nmap as the main scanner to scan the IP addresses and domains, the easiest and
useful tool for reconnaissance of network. Vulscan interface is very similar to
Metasploit 1 and Metasploit 2 which makes it easy to use. This tool provides a
command-line interface that you can run on the Kali Linux terminal in order to
scan hosts and domains. This tool can be used to get information about our
target(domain) which can be a website or an IP address or a domain. The
interactive console provides a number of helpful features, such as command
completion and contextual help. Vulscan is a web reconnaissance tool that uses
NSE script. Vulscan has NSE scripts that give additional features to nmap to
detect and find vulnerabilities and further which can be used to perform
exploitation. Nse scripts have many modules such as network discovery and
backdoor detection. It has so many modules such as database interaction, built-
in convenience functions, interactive help, and command completion. Vulscan
provides a powerful environment in which open source web-based
reconnaissance can be conducted and you can gather all information about the
target.
Installation :
Step 1: Use the following command to install the tool in your kali Linux
operating system.
git clone https://github.com/scipag/vulscan scipag_vulscan
ln -s `pwd`/scipag_vulscan /usr/share/nmap/scripts/vulscan
Step 2: Now use the following command to move into the directory of the tool.
Use the second command to list out the contents of the tool
cd scipag_vulscan
ls

The tool has been downloaded and installed successfully now we will see an
example to use the tool.
Usage
Example 1: Use the following command to scan a domain using the vulscan
tool.
nmap -sV --script=vulscan/vulscan.nse <domain>

This tool automates the nmap vulnerability scanner using NSE scripts.
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