This chapter will include the following recipes:

• Nmap greppable output analysis
• Port scanning with NMAP NSE execution
• Automating vulnerability scanning with NMAP NSE
• Automating web application scanning with Nikto
• Multithreaded MSF exploitation with reverse shell payload
• Multithreaded MSF exploitation with backdoor executable
• Multithreaded MSF exploitation with ICMP verification
• Multithreaded MSF exploitation with admin account creation