Plugins

A plugin is a small file that provides the data for checking. Every plugin contains one single check, the description, the procedure to verify the existence of the flaw and further informations. Plugins are necessary to use the ATK, doing checkings and security audits.

You find a list of the official ATK plugins and their content here. Please update your ATK with the Plugin AutoUpdate that was introduced with ATK 3.0.

Documentation

The following documents should help you working with the plugins:

• Modify a single check
• Write a plugin manually

ATK is also able to handle a few Nessus plugins if they are written in NASL (Nessus Attack Scripting Language) and banner-grabbing/pattern-matching based. You'll find more information about the open-source vulnerability scanner nessus and NASL at http://www.nessus.org. The Nessus support is still experimental. Please use an ATK plugin if there is some for the same check available. The Nessus plugins are not part of the ATK plugin repositories.