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% Packages
\usepackage{fancyhdr}           % For header and footer
\usepackage{multicol}           % Allows multicols in tables
\usepackage{tabularx}           % Intelligent column widths
\usepackage{tabulary}           % Used in header and footer
\usepackage{hhline}             % Border under tables
\usepackage{graphicx}           % For images
\usepackage{xcolor}             % For hex colours
%\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}    % For unicode character support
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}        % Without this we get weird character replacements
\usepackage{colortbl}           % For coloured tables
\usepackage{setspace}           % For line height
\usepackage{lastpage}           % Needed for total page number
\usepackage{seqsplit}           % Splits long words.
%\usepackage{opensans}          % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely.
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}     % For underlining links
% Most of the following are not required for the majority
% of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support.
\usepackage{amsmath}            % Symbols
\usepackage{MnSymbol}           % Symbols
\usepackage{wasysym}            % Symbols
%\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel}              % Languages

% Document Info
\author{fool}
\pdfinfo{
  /Title (nikto.pdf)
  /Creator (Cheatography)
  /Author (fool)
  /Subject (Nikto Cheat Sheet)
}

% Lengths and widths
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\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line
\renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit
% This two commands together give roughly
% the right line height in the tables
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\onehalfspacing

% Commands
\newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour
\newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols
\newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns
\newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use

% Font and Colours
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\definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666}
\definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333}
\definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{A3A3A3}
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\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\color{TextColor}

% Header and Footer
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{} % Set header to blank
\fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank
\fancyhead[L]{
\noindent
\begin{multicols}{3}
\begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C}
    \SetRowColor{DarkBackground}
    \vspace{-7pt}
    {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent
        \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}}
    }
\end{tabulary}
\columnbreak
\begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L}
    \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{Nikto Cheat Sheet}}}} \\
    \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{fool} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/218112/cs/48118/}}}
\end{tabulary}
\end{multicols}}

\fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize
\noindent
\begin{multicols}{3}
\begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL}
  \SetRowColor{FootBackground}
  \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}}  \\
  \vspace{-2pt}fool \\
  \uline{cheatography.com/fool} \\
  \end{tabulary}
\vfill
\columnbreak
\begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L}
  \SetRowColor{FootBackground}
  \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}}  \\
   \vspace{-2pt}Not Yet Published.\\
   Updated 17th May, 2026.\\
   Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}.
\end{tabulary}
\vfill
\columnbreak
\begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L}
  \SetRowColor{FootBackground}
  \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}}  \\
  \SetRowColor{white}
  \vspace{-5pt}
  %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg}
  Measure your website readability!\\
  www.readability-score.com
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\end{multicols}}




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% Set font size to small. Switch to any value
% from this page to resize cheat sheet text:
% www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html
\footnotesize % Small font.

\begin{multicols*}{2}

\begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.56 cm} x{5.44 cm} }
\SetRowColor{DarkBackground}
\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Target Options}}  \tn
% Row 0
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Specify host & nikto -h \textless{}IP/domain\textgreater{} \tn 
% Row Count 1 (+ 1)
% Row 1
\SetRowColor{white}
Specify port & nikto -h \textless{}IP/domain\textgreater{} -p \textless{}port\textgreater{} \tn 
% Row Count 3 (+ 2)
% Row 2
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Multiple ports & nikto -h \textless{}IP/domain\textgreater{} -p \textless{}port1\textgreater{},\textless{}port2\textgreater{},etc \tn 
% Row Count 5 (+ 2)
% Row 3
\SetRowColor{white}
Specify port in url & nikto -h http(s)://\textless{}IP/domain\textgreater{}:\textless{}port\textgreater{} \tn 
% Row Count 7 (+ 2)
\hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--}
\end{tabularx}
\par\addvspace{1.3em}

\begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{5.68 cm} x{2.32 cm} }
\SetRowColor{DarkBackground}
\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Tuning Options}}  \tn
% Row 0
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Specify tuning & -Tuning \textless{}option\textgreater{} \tn 
% Row Count 2 (+ 2)
% Row 1
\SetRowColor{white}
Interesting File / Seen in logs & 1 \tn 
% Row Count 4 (+ 2)
% Row 2
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Misconfiguration / Default File & 2 \tn 
% Row Count 6 (+ 2)
% Row 3
\SetRowColor{white}
Information Disclosure & 3 \tn 
% Row Count 7 (+ 1)
% Row 4
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Injection (XSS/Script/HTML) & 4 \tn 
% Row Count 8 (+ 1)
% Row 5
\SetRowColor{white}
Remote File Retrieval - Inside Web Root & 5 \tn 
% Row Count 10 (+ 2)
% Row 6
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Denial of Service & 6 \tn 
% Row Count 11 (+ 1)
% Row 7
\SetRowColor{white}
Remote File Retrieval - Server Wide & 7 \tn 
% Row Count 13 (+ 2)
% Row 8
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Command Execution / Remote Shell & 8 \tn 
% Row Count 15 (+ 2)
% Row 9
\SetRowColor{white}
SQL Injection & 9 \tn 
% Row Count 16 (+ 1)
% Row 10
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
File Upload & 0 \tn 
% Row Count 17 (+ 1)
% Row 11
\SetRowColor{white}
Authentication Bypass & a \tn 
% Row Count 18 (+ 1)
% Row 12
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Software Identification & b \tn 
% Row Count 19 (+ 1)
% Row 13
\SetRowColor{white}
Remote Source Inclusion & c \tn 
% Row Count 20 (+ 1)
% Row 14
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
WebService & d \tn 
% Row Count 21 (+ 1)
% Row 15
\SetRowColor{white}
Administrative Console & e \tn 
% Row Count 22 (+ 1)
% Row 16
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Reverse (all but specified) & x \tn 
% Row Count 23 (+ 1)
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\begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{5.6 cm} x{2.4 cm} }
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% Row 0
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Specify technique & -evasion \textless{}option\textgreater{} \tn 
% Row Count 2 (+ 2)
% Row 1
\SetRowColor{white}
Random URI encoding (non-UTF8) & 1 \tn 
% Row Count 4 (+ 2)
% Row 2
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Directory self-reference (/./) & 2 \tn 
% Row Count 6 (+ 2)
% Row 3
\SetRowColor{white}
Premature URL ending & 3 \tn 
% Row Count 7 (+ 1)
% Row 4
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Prepend long random string & 4 \tn 
% Row Count 8 (+ 1)
% Row 5
\SetRowColor{white}
Fake parameter & 5 \tn 
% Row Count 9 (+ 1)
% Row 6
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
TAB as request spacer & 6 \tn 
% Row Count 10 (+ 1)
% Row 7
\SetRowColor{white}
Change the case of the URL & 7 \tn 
% Row Count 11 (+ 1)
% Row 8
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Use Windows directory separator (\textbackslash{}) & 8 \tn 
% Row Count 13 (+ 2)
% Row 9
\SetRowColor{white}
Use a carriage return (0x0d) as a request spacer & A \tn 
% Row Count 15 (+ 2)
% Row 10
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Use binary value 0x0b as a request spacer & B \tn 
% Row Count 17 (+ 2)
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\par\addvspace{1.3em}

\begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{5.52 cm} x{2.48 cm} }
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Display Options}}  \tn
% Row 0
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Toggle display outputs & -Display \textless{}option\textgreater{} \tn 
% Row Count 2 (+ 2)
% Row 1
\SetRowColor{white}
Show redirects & 1 \tn 
% Row Count 3 (+ 1)
% Row 2
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Show cookies received & 2 \tn 
% Row Count 4 (+ 1)
% Row 3
\SetRowColor{white}
Show all 200/OK responses & 3 \tn 
% Row Count 5 (+ 1)
% Row 4
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Show URLs which require authentication & 4 \tn 
% Row Count 7 (+ 2)
% Row 5
\SetRowColor{white}
Debug output & D \tn 
% Row Count 8 (+ 1)
% Row 6
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Display all HTTP errors & E \tn 
% Row Count 9 (+ 1)
% Row 7
\SetRowColor{white}
Print progress to STDOUT & P \tn 
% Row Count 10 (+ 1)
% Row 8
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Scrub output of IPs and hostnames & S \tn 
% Row Count 12 (+ 2)
% Row 9
\SetRowColor{white}
Verbose output & V \tn 
% Row Count 13 (+ 1)
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\par\addvspace{1.3em}

\begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.8 cm} x{5.2 cm} }
\SetRowColor{DarkBackground}
\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{File Output Options}}  \tn
% Row 0
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Output file & -o \textless{}filename or . for auto name\textgreater{} \tn 
% Row Count 2 (+ 2)
% Row 1
\SetRowColor{white}
Specify format & -Format \textless{}format\textgreater{} \tn 
% Row Count 3 (+ 1)
% Row 2
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
Available formats & csv \tn 
% Row Count 5 (+ 2)
% Row 3
\SetRowColor{white}
 & json \tn 
% Row Count 6 (+ 1)
% Row 4
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
 & htm (HTML) \tn 
% Row Count 7 (+ 1)
% Row 5
\SetRowColor{white}
 & txt \tn 
% Row Count 8 (+ 1)
% Row 6
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
 & xml \tn 
% Row Count 9 (+ 1)
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\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{If format is left unspecified, it will be determined by the extension used in the output filename. Format can also be specified with plugins.}  \tn 
\hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--}
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\par\addvspace{1.3em}

\begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.48 cm} x{5.52 cm} }
\SetRowColor{DarkBackground}
\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Plugin Examples}}  \tn
% Row 0
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
-plugin dictionary & Use a dictionary attack to enumerate directories and files \tn 
% Row Count 3 (+ 3)
% Row 1
\SetRowColor{white}
-plugin robots & Check robots.txt for paths to pass to other scripts \tn 
% Row Count 5 (+ 2)
% Row 2
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
-plugin cgi & Check for CGI vulnerabilities \tn 
% Row Count 7 (+ 2)
% Row 3
\SetRowColor{white}
-plugin sitefiles & look for files based on the sites IP or name \tn 
% Row Count 9 (+ 2)
\hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--}
\end{tabularx}
\par\addvspace{1.3em}

\begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.2 cm} x{4.8 cm} }
\SetRowColor{DarkBackground}
\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Plugins Usage}}  \tn
% Row 0
\SetRowColor{LightBackground}
List plugins & nikto -{}-list-plugins \tn 
% Row Count 1 (+ 1)
% Row 1
\SetRowColor{white}
Specify plugin & -Plugin \textless{}plugin name\textgreater{} \tn 
% Row Count 2 (+ 1)
\hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--}
\end{tabularx}
\par\addvspace{1.3em}


% That's all folks
\end{multicols*}

\end{document}