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 (CtrlP). The Profile Editor will be launched.
  4. Enter a profile name and a description on the Profile tab.
  5. Enable Version detection and select TCP connect scan (-sT) in the Scan tab.
  6. Enable Don't ping before scanning (-Pn) in the Ping tab.
  7. Enable the following scripts on the Scripting tab:
    • hostmap-ip2hosts
    • http-apache-negotiation
    • http-apache-server
    • http-auth-finder
    • http-backup-finder
    • http-config-backup
    • http-cors
    • http-cross-domain-policy
    • http-csrf
    • http-default-accounts
    • http-devframework
    • http-dombased-xss
    • http-enum
    • http-exif-spider
    • http-favicon
    • http-git
    • http-headers
    • http-iis-short-name-brute ...

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