Importing Nmap Scan Results Into MSF

Save Nmap Scan results in XML format

┌──(root㉿INE)-[~]
└─# nmap -sV -Pn -oX myscan.xml demo.ine.local
Starting Nmap 7.94SVN ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-11-13 21:08 IST
Nmap scan report for demo.ine.local (10.5.31.165)
Host is up (0.0019s latency).
Not shown: 993 filtered tcp ports (no-response)
PORT      STATE SERVICE            VERSION
80/tcp    open  http               HttpFileServer httpd 2.3
135/tcp   open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
139/tcp   open  netbios-ssn        Microsoft Windows netbios-ssn
445/tcp   open  microsoft-ds       Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 - 2012 microsoft-ds
3389/tcp  open  ssl/ms-wbt-server?
49154/tcp open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
49155/tcp open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
Service Info: OSs: Windows, Windows Server 2008 R2 - 2012; CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 71.28 seconds

Start postgresql database service

service postgresql start

Importing results

Check the db status

msf6 > db_status
[*] Connected to msf. Connection type: postgresql.

You can now import the Nmap scan result

msf6 > db_import myscan.xml
[*] Importing 'Nmap XML' data
[*] Import: Parsing with 'Nokogiri v1.13.10'
[*] Importing host 10.5.31.165
[*] Successfully imported /root/myscan.xml

We can now view the results by running the following commands:

msf6 > hosts

Hosts
=====

address      mac  name            os_name  os_flavor  os_sp  purpose  info  comments
-------      ---  ----            -------  ---------  -----  -------  ----  --------
10.5.31.165       demo.ine.local  Unknown                    device

msf6 > services
Services
========

host         port   proto  name               state  info
----         ----   -----  ----               -----  ----
10.5.31.165  80     tcp    http               open   HttpFileServer httpd 2.3
10.5.31.165  135    tcp    msrpc              open   Microsoft Windows RPC
10.5.31.165  139    tcp    netbios-ssn        open   Microsoft Windows netbios-ssn
10.5.31.165  445    tcp    microsoft-ds       open   Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 - 2012 microsoft-ds
10.5.31.165  3389   tcp    ssl/ms-wbt-server  open
10.5.31.165  49154  tcp    msrpc              open   Microsoft Windows RPC
10.5.31.165  49155  tcp    msrpc              open   Microsoft Windows RPC