-A
: Aggresive scan. Enable OS detection, version detection, script scanning, and traceroute-O -sV -sC --traceroute
-O
: Operating system detection-p <ports,>
: Specify ports to scan-p-
: Scan every port-Pn
: Treat each host as active. Skip host discovery-sS
: TCP SYN scan (stealth scan). Quick scan. Does not complete the TCP connection-sT
: TCP connection scan-sU
: UDP scan-sV
: Service version scan