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Navigation in Invicti Standard

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Invicti Standard

Invicti Standard is navigated by way of menus, a ribbon, and tabs. This document explains how you can navigate within Invicti Standard using the customizable quick access toolbar, the ribbon, and the right-click context menu. For information about the dashboards, refer to the following documentation:

Quick access toolbar

Customize the quick access toolbar for access to tasks you use frequently. Its default position is above the Ribbon.

The table below lists and explains the icons on the quick access toolbar.

Icon

Description

New

Click to Start a New Scan. Alternatively, press CTRL+N on the keyboard.
For more information, refer to
 How to ccan a website in Invicti Standard.

Import

Click to Import an Invicti Session File. Alternatively press CTRL+O on the keyboard.

Export

Click to Export your current Invicti scan as an Invicti Sessions (NSS) file. Alternatively press CTRL+S on the keyboard.

Dropdown Arrow

Click to show or hide the above options in the quick access toolbar.

The ribbon

The ribbon is displayed at the top of the window. Each tab on the ribbon contains actions you can perform. The tabs and available actions are described below.

File

From the File tab, you can import Local Scans saved in your PC, or import a scan file from a disc (or other device) or from Invicti Enterprise. You can also export Scans to a file on your PC or Invicti Enterprise elsewhere. The File tab also provides information About Invicti and the option to Exit Invicti Standard.

Home

The Home tab contains all the main Invicti Standard functions:

  • Start Scan: Start a new scan, schedule a scan, start an incremental scan, schedule incremental scans, or open a new instance of Invicti Standard in another window for multiple scans. For more information, refer to How to scan a website in Invicti Standard.
  • Scan Session: Import to Invicti Standard, export from Invicti Standard, or export to Invicti Enterprise from Invicti Standard. For more information, refer to Importing and exporting scan sessions in Invicti Standard.
  • Tools: Use the scan policy editor and report policy editor, or access further options.

View

From this tab you can display or hide the panels in the window for scans:

  • Activity (default panel)
  • HTTP Request / Response
  • Knowledge Base Viewer 
  • Attack Radar
  • Execute SQL Commands
  • Get Shell 
  • Exploit LFI 
  • Exploit Short Names
  • Controlled Scan
  • Send To Task
  • Logs (default panel)
  • Sitemap (default panel)
  • Issues (default panel)
  • Knowledge Base (default panel)
  • Progress (default panel)
  • Request Builder 
  • Encoder
  • Reset Layout – Resets current layout to the default one

For more information about each of these panels, refer to Scan Summary Dashboard.

Reporting

On the Reporting tab you can download different types of reports in various formats:

  • Custom
  • Standard
  • Compliance
  • Analysis
  • WAF Rules
  • Lists

For more information, refer to Report Templates and Lists.

Help

From this tab, you can access Invicti's technical help:

  • Documentation:
  • Help links to our Support page
  • Extensibility, Reporting, Custom Scripting and Form Authentication APIs
  • Support allows you to submit a support request
  • Application:
  • Check Updates lets you know if a new version or update is available
  • Check for VDB Update or lets you know if a new vulnerability database has been released
  • Subscriptions lets you manage your subscription
  • What’s New lets you displays and hide the popup

Link

From this tab, you can view further scanning options for scans already conducted.

  • Tools:
  • Run Controlled Scans
  • Select Send to Request Builder to create or modify imported HTTP requests, send them to the target, and analyze the HTTP responses sent back
  • Go to Identification Page
  • Copy URL or Copy as cURL
  • Open in Browser

This tab is displayed if you click on a node in the Sitemap.

Vulnerability

From this tab, once you click on an Issue, the Tools and Send To options are displayed.

  • Tools:
  • Retest a single vulnerability
  • Generate Exploit for CSRF and XSS vulnerabilities
  • Execute SQL Commands to run manual SQL queries to verify vulnerabilities
  • Get Shell to run commands on a shell on the target application
  • Exploit LFI to read the contents of files on the target machine
  • Exploit Short Names to define path to be exploited and display results
  • Ignore from this Scan to ignore selected vulnerabilities
  • Send To – Configure Send To Actions
  • WAF Rules – Configure Web Application Firewalls

Search

Click to display a search box and enter the name of a tab on the ribbon or a panel in the dashboard in Invicti Standard. When the name of the item is found, click to open.

The right-click context menu

When you right-click an item on the Sitemap or Issues panels, a context menu is displayed that provides a shortcut to several functions on the ribbon.