how to install nikto in termux

install nikto in termux

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What is nikto

It is an open source free information gathering tools which is inbuilt in Kali. It is a web scanner. Through this tools, more than 6700 dangerous files or programs, more than 1250 outdated servers and more than 270 version specific servers can be detected. Through these tools, the configuration of any web server such as the index file present inside it, the options of the HTTP server and the web server and software can be detected, through this tool, it updates many plugins automatically. Designed not to be very stealth tools, but to quickly test web servers and view log files

Commands of Nikto

How to use NIkto tools and what to use is given below

-config+ Use this config file

-Display+ Turn on/off display outputs

-dbcheck check database and other key files for syntax errors

-Format+ save file (-o) format

-Help Extended help information

-host+ target host/URL

-id+ Host authentication to use, format is id:pass or id:pass:realm

-list-plugins List all available plugins

-output+ Write output to this file

-nossl Disables using SSL

-no404 Disables 404 checks

-Plugins+ List of plugins to run (default: ALL)

-port+ Port to use (default 80)

-root+ Prepend root value to all requests, format is /directory

-ssl Force ssl mode on port

-Tuning+ Scan tuning

-timeout+ Timeout for requests (default 10 seconds)

-update Update databases and plugins from CIRT.net

-Version Print plugin and database versions

-vhost+ Virtual host (for Host header)

Features of Nikto

1- It checks the components of the old server

2- You can save the scan result in html, xml or csv

3- Through this, many servers can be scanned with the help of input files.

4- Can scan multiple ports at once

5- You can easily update it through cli

6- Can identify installed software with favicon and header

7- Automatically pauses after a specified time

8- It scans tuning

9- The biggest thing in this is that you can login to Metasploit.

10- This is useful for penetration testing, if there is any deficiency, then by clicking on its link, you can find out that deficiency and also know what type of attack this deficiency allows.

11- This is not only the web server but also all the information of a website such as what is the IP address of the website on which server is running etc

How to use nikto

It is very easy to use this tools to install it

sudo apt install nikto

After that type nikto will be installed in your system

Type nikto -host and ip adress of host, after that it will extract all the information of your web server, if there is any valnurabelity, it will remove that which you can fix.