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Nipun Jaswal
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Nipun Jaswal

Nipun Jaswal is an international cybersecurity author and an award-winning IT security researcher with more than a decade of experience in penetration testing, Red Team assessments, vulnerability research, RF, and wireless hacking. He is presently the Director of Cybersecurity Practices at BDO India. Nipun has trained and worked with multiple law enforcement agencies on vulnerability research and exploit development. He has also authored numerous articles and exploits that can be found on popular security databases, such as PacketStorm and exploit-db. Please feel free to contact him at @nipunjaswal.
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Scanning SNMP services with Metasploit

Let us perform a TCP port scan of a different network as shown in the following screenshot:

We will be using the tcp scan module listed under auxiliary/scanner/portscan, as shown in the preceding screenshot. Let's run the module and analyze the results as follows:

We can see that we found two services only that don't look that appealing. Let us also perform a UDP sweep of the network and check if we can find something interesting:

To carry out a UDP sweep, we will use the auxiliary/scanner/discovery/udp_sweep module as shown in the preceding screenshot. Next, we only need to provide the network range by setting the RHOSTS option. Additionally, you can increase the number of threads as well. Let's run the module and analyze results:

Amazing! We can see plenty of results generated by the UDP sweep module. Additionally, a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) service is also discovered on 192.168.1.19.

The SNMP, is a commonly used service that provides...

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Nipun Jaswal is an international cybersecurity author and an award-winning IT security researcher with more than a decade of experience in penetration testing, Red Team assessments, vulnerability research, RF, and wireless hacking. He is presently the Director of Cybersecurity Practices at BDO India. Nipun has trained and worked with multiple law enforcement agencies on vulnerability research and exploit development. He has also authored numerous articles and exploits that can be found on popular security databases, such as PacketStorm and exploit-db. Please feel free to contact him at @nipunjaswal.
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