If you want to develop nasl plugins for OpenVAS, you might be interested how to import them in scanner. So, I was also interested.
First of all, I decided to copy one of existing nasl scripts. I chose script that successfully detected vulnerability on a target host. Thus, in the case of importing error, I would know for sure that it’s not because of syntax errors in script, but, for example, because non-existing plugin signature.
I scanned target CentOS host, chose and copied script file, changed id of the script (oid) and script title, rebuilt database. Then I rescanned target host.
As you can see, new script is also in results. Pretty straightforward.
Now, let’s review the actual commands.