PORT 161/udp - SNMP
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) talks to your network to find out information related to this network device activity: for example, bytes, packets, and errors transmitted and received.
Introduction
SNMP is not well-understood by many network administrators. This often results in SNMP misconfigurations, which can result in significant information leakage.
Scanning the network
To scan for open SNMP ports we can use nmap:
Bruteforce attack
We can use tools such as onesixtyone
, which will attempt to brute force attack against a list of IP addresses. First we need to create a file containing community strings:
And run the tool:
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