Services enumeration is the operation of extracting information about the running services from a target, in order to explore an attack vector which would compromise the systems, such as machines' hostnames, network services, service settings, and details about SNMP and DNS. The following subsections discuss, in detail, how to enumerate and exploit two different networking services: SNMP and DNS.
Services enumeration
Insecure SNMP configuration
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol that manages network devices; it runs on the UDP. Every network device contains an SNMP agent that connects with an independent SNMP manager. This protocol uses two authenticating passwords: the first is a public key to...