Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Using db_nmap in Metasploit

Nmap is one of the most popular network scanners and is most widely used in penetration testing and vulnerability assessments. The beauty of Metasploit is that it combines the power of Nmap by integrating and storing results in its database. Let's run a basic stealth scan on the target by providing the -sS switch. Additionally, we have used the -p- switch to tell Nmap to scan for all 65,535 ports on the target, and the --open switch to list all the open ports only (this eliminates filtered and closed ports), as shown in the following screenshot:

We can see providing the preceding command runs a thorough scan on ...