Saving the Nmap Scanning Results

Types of Saving Formats

Normal output (oN) with the .nmap file extension

Grepable output (oG) with the .gnmap file extension

XML output (oX) with the .xml file extension

(-oA) to save the results in all formats

z3tssu@htb[/htb]$ sudo nmap 10.129.2.28 -p- -oA targetStarting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-06-16 12:14 CEST
Nmap scan report for 10.129.2.28
Host is up (0.0091s latency).
Not shown: 65525 closed ports
PORT      STATE SERVICE
22/tcp    open  ssh
25/tcp    open  smtp
80/tcp    open  http
MAC Address: DE:AD:00:00:BE:EF (Intel Corporate)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 10.22 seconds

Opening XML Output in Browser

With the XML output, we can easily create HTML reports that are easy to read, even for non-technical people. This is later very useful for documentation, as it presents our results in a detailed and clear way. To convert the stored results from XML format to HTML, we can use the tool xsltproc.

z3tssu@htb[/htb]$ xsltproc target.xml -o target.html

If we now open the HTML file in our browser, we see a clear and structured presentation of our results.