Aggressive scan

If you use the -A option, it will enable the following probe:

  • Service-version detection (-sV)
  • Operating-system detection (-O)
  • Script scanning (-sC)
  • Traceroute (--traceroute)

It may take some time for this scan type to finish. The following command can be used for aggressive scanning:

    nmap -A 172.16.43.156

The following is the abridged result of this command:

In addition to the detailed information about ports, services, and the certificates, further down the result we get detailed information concerning the Apache Webserver configured on this target machine:

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