Metasploit has a built-in auxiliary module specifically for sweeping SNMP devices. One must understand it before performing an attack. First, read-only and read-write community strings play an important role in the sort of information that can be mined or altered on the devices themselves. The Management Information Base (MIB) interface allows us to query the device and extract information.
If dealing with Windows-based devices configured with SNMP, often at times with the RO/RW community strings, we can extract patch levels, services running, last reboot times, usernames on the system, routes, and various other aspects that worth hack value.
When querying through SNMP, there is the MIB API. This interface allows us to query ...
