How to do it...

Sparta comes preconfigured with a number of port actions defined for web services. If we right-click on a web service, we can see our available actions listed. We will take a look at a couple of these port actions in this recipe:

  • Run nikto: One of the first options that stands out is the ability to run Nikto against our target web service. You will remember from our coverage of Nikto in Chapter 9, Web Application Scanning, that it spiders through a target application and also makes numerous preconfigured requests, attempting to identify potentially dangerous scripts and files that exist in an application:
  • Run nmap (scripts) ...

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