The advantage of Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) is that it adds a lot of automated features in nmap to automate a wide variety of networkingtasks.Herein this post I am using some of the most commonly used NSE scripts for Penetration Testers.
1.script http-enum It performs Brute Force on a server path in order to discover web applications inuse.Ittests more than 2000 serverPath.Theworking of this NSE script is similar to NIKTO.
2.script http-title It Shows the title of the default page of a web server.
3.scriptdns.brute It is used to find the Sub-Domains of the Website.
4. script whois-domain It retrieves whois Information of a Domain.
5. script http-methods This script is used to find out the HTTP request supported by a target by sending OPTIONS request.
6.scripttraceroute-geolocation.nse This script is used to lists the geographical locations of each hops Traceroute.
7.script http-sitemap-generator It Spiders a web server and displays its directory structure along with number and types of files in each folder.
8.script=nfs-ls Attempts to get useful information about files from NFS exports. The output is intended to resemble the output of ls.
9.script=firewalk It is used to check the firewall rules using an IP TTL expiration technique known as firewalking.
10.Script=mysql-info.nse Connects to a MySQL server and prints information such as the protocol and version numbers, thread ID, status, capabilities, and the password salt. :lit: References:nmap.org