not working with appended nmap results

[DuoMorph]

command one:

nmap -p 80,445,443,21,22 -T5 --min-parallelism 16 -n --min-hostgroup 16 -Pn --append-output -oA testnmapappend --open 192.168.0.0/28

command two:

nmap -p 80,445,443,21,22 -T5 --min-parallelism 16 -n --min-hostgroup 16 -Pn --append-output -oA testnmapappend --open 192.168.0.16/28

output nmap-parse-output with result file (testnmapappend.xml):

$ nmap-parse-output testnmapappend.xml hosts
-:82: parser error : XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
     ^
-:83: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
<!DOCTYPE nmaprun>
^
unable to parse -

[SvenTo]

Yes, the problem is that Nmap does just append the second XML output to the first XML output which results in an invalid XML file. In this case, nmap-parse-output must split the file into multiple XML files before passing it to xsltproc. I will probably look into this with the next release.

Example output of --append-output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE nmaprun>
<?xml-stylesheet href="file:///usr/bin/../share/nmap/nmap.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!-- Nmap 7.70 scan initiated Tue Aug 13 16:19:30 2019 as: nmap -sS -p0- -oA test -&#45;privileged localhost -->
<nmaprun scanner="nmap" args="nmap -sS -p0- -oA test -&#45;privileged localhost" start="1565705970" startstr="Tue Aug 13 16:19:30 2019" version="7.70" xmloutputversion="1.04">
[...]
</nmaprun>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE nmaprun>
<?xml-stylesheet href="file:///usr/bin/../share/nmap/nmap.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!-- Nmap 7.70 scan initiated Tue Aug 13 16:20:04 2019 as: nmap -sS -p0- -oA test -&#45;privileged -&#45;append-output localhost -->
<nmaprun scanner="nmap" args="nmap -sS -p0- -oA test -&#45;privileged -&#45;append-output localhost" start="1565706004" startstr="Tue Aug 13 16:20:04 2019" version="7.70" xmloutputversion="1.04">
[...]
</nmaprun>

[royharoush]

any chance this can be resolved ?

[SvenTo]

Yes, I'm planning to add support with the next release. However, it is still work in progress because I'm working on multi file support, too.

[0xtavian]

@royharoush one solution is to not append to the xml and instead merge both xmls https://github.com/CBHue/nMap_Merger

[royharoush]

that worked for you ? i haven't found a normal nmap merger yet .. anyway .. ill give it a try ! thanks !

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 9:15 AM 0xtavian notifications@github.com wrote:

@royharoush https://github.com/royharoush one solution is to not append to the xml and instead merge both xmls https://github.com/CBHue/nMap_Merger

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[0xtavian]

@royharoush yea works like a charm