3.

1 Enumeration

3.2 NetBIOS

3.3 SNMP

3.4 Conclusions

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After the scanning phase, the next phase we are going to dive
into is known as enumeration.
The goal is to gather more detailed information on both
devices and resources attached to the network. This includes
account names, shares, misconfigured services and so on.
Like the scanning phase, enumeration involves active
connections to the remote devices in the network.

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There are many protocols on networked systems that one can
easily exploit if administrators do not take the necessary
steps to either secure the protocols or, disable them.
In this module, we will see ways of identifying these
protocols, with the intent to eventually learn how to exploit
them in later phases.

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For example, NetBIOS (Network Basic Input Output System) is
the service that allows Windows systems to share files,
folders, and printers among machines on a LAN. If not
properly configured, it can lead to large amount of
information leakage.
NetBIOS can be extremely useful in determining types of
system information such as user IDs and open shares.

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In addition to NetBIOS, a protocol that we will explore in this
module is SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). It
is a protocol used to both gather information and configure
network devices (printers, switches, servers…).
It is worth noting that these are not the only protocols that
you may find in a network therefore, the techniques that we
will see in later sections may depend on the platforms in use.

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Before seeing what techniques and tools we can use to gather
information from NetBIOS, it is important to understand how
NetBIOS and NetBIOS over TCP (NBT) work.
The very first version of NetBIOS was developed late in 1983.
It was designed as an API (not as a protocol as many suspect)
that served its purpose in developing client/server
applications.

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 Since this old version was not intended to be encapsulated
within TCP and UDP packets, in 1987 a new version was
released: NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT or NBT).
This new version of NetBIOS, developed to work where the
TCP/IP protocol suite is available, is considered a true
protocol and it is described in the following two RFCs: 1001
and 1002.
In the coming slides we will focus our tests on this protocol.
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https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1002
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The main purpose of NetBIOS is to allow applications on
different systems to communicate with one another over the
LAN. It is used for a multitude of purposes including: sharing
printers and files, remote procedure calls, exchange messages
and much more. As expected, these features may reveal
additional information such as computer names, user names,
domains, printers, available shares...

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 PC's on a NetBIOS LAN communicate either by establishing a
session or by using datagrams. To do this, NetBIOS uses the
following TCP and UDP ports:
• UDP 137 for name services
• UDP 138 for datagram services
• TCP 139 for session services

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 The name service has the same purpose of a DNS record, it
translates and maps a NetBIOS name to an IP address.
A name is an unique 16-byte address that identifies a
NetBIOS resource on the network and is dynamically
registered when either services or applications start. Names
can be registered as unique names or as group names.
You can find more information about NetBIOS name
resolution here.
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In order to locate a resource, a NetBIOS Name Query is used
to resolve the NetBIOS name to an IP address. A name is
composed of 16 characters: the firsts 15 characters can be
specified by the user, while the 16th character is used to
indicate the resource type and goes from 00 to FF
(hexadecimal).
The next table shows some of the names and types available.

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 Name Service / Type Name Service / Type

[computer_name]00 Workstation Service [user_name]03 Messenger Service

[computer_name]03 Messenger Service [domain_name]1D Master Browser
[computer_name]06 RAS Server Service [domain_name]1B Domain Master Browser
[computer_name]1F NetDDE Service [domain_name]00 Domain Name
[computer_name]20 Server Service [domain_name]1C Domain Control
[computer_name]21 RAS Client Service [domain_name]1E Broser Service Elections
[computer_name]BE Network Monitor Agent __MSBROWSE__ Master Browser
[computer_name]BF Network Monitor Application

More suffixes can be found here.

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The screenshot below shows the NetBIOS names on our
machine. To see this information we can run the following
command:
nbtstat -n

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 The service that actually maps NetBIOS names to IP address is
called Windows Internet Name Service (WINS).
If you want to dig deeper into WINS, here are some valid
Microsoft resources that you can leverage:
• WINS Overview
• What is WINS
• WINS defined
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The NetBIOS Datagram Service (NBDS) permits the sending of
messages to a NetBIOS name. It runs on UDP port 138,
therefore making it a connectionless communication.
The datagram service allows the sending and receiving of the
datagram messages to and from:
• a specific NetBIOS name
• broadcast the datagram to all NetBIOS names

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The datagram and broadcast methods allow one computer to
communicate with several other computers at the same time
however, these communications are limited in terms of
message size. There is no error detection / correction using
the datagram or broadcast methods however, datagram
communication allows communications without the need for
a session to be established.

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The NetBIOS Session Service (NBSS) is the most commonly
known of the NetBIOS services. It allows two names to
establish a connection in order to exchange data.
For example, when a device creates a file sharing connection
the session service is used. Once the session has been
established, the two workstations use the Server Message
Block (SMB) protocol, which we will explore later on.

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The following steps are used to establish the connection:
1. The NetBIOS name is resolved into an IP address
2. A TCP connection is established between the two devices,
using the TCP port 139
3. The device starting the connection sends a NetBIOS
Session Request over the TCP connection
1. This includes the NetBIOS name of the application that wants to
establish the connection and the NetBIOS name to which to connect
4. If the remote device is listening on that name, there will
be a positive response and the session will be established.
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Before seeing how to use NetBIOS, there is another popular
protocol that we have to understand: Sever Message Block.
SMB lets you share files, disks, directories, printers and, in
some cases, even COM ports across a network.
Before Windows 2000, SMB ran only with NetBIOS over
TCP/IP (port 139), therefore a NetBIOS Session was required.

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 Windows 2000 and higher allow us to run SMB directly over
TCP/IP (direct hosting), without the need to run over NetBIOS
sessions. To do this, the TCP port 445 is used.
Since SMB provides several features such as manipulating
files, sharing, messaging, Interprocess Communication (IPC)
and more, it is one of the most attractive services to explore
during our enumeration phase.

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In the next few sections, we will explore different commands
and tools that can be used to enumerate system information
using NetBIOS. The one we will use the most is the famous
nbtstat.
By using the data we gathered in the scanning phase, we can
search for systems with ports 137/139/445 open.

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 Nbtstat is a tool developed to troubleshoot NetBIOS name
resolution problems. The main options it offers are as follows:

-a (adapter status) Lists the remote machine's name table given its name
-A (Adapter status) Lists the remote machine's name table given its IP
-c (cache) Lists NBT's cache of remote [machine] names and their
IP addresses
-n (names) Lists local NetBIOS names.
-r (resolved) Lists names resolved by broadcast and via WINS
-R (Reload) Purges and reloads the remote cache name table
-S (Sessions) Lists sessions table with the destination IP addresses
-s (sessions) Lists sessions table converting destination IP
addresses to computer NETBIOS names.
-RR (ReleaseRefresh) Sends Name Release packets to WINS and starts Refr
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Let’s suppose that, during our scanning phase, we came
across a machine (192.168.99.162) that has the following
open ports:
Starting Nmap 6.49BETA5 ( https://nmap.org ) EST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.99.162
Host is up (0.085s latency).
Not shown: 1990 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
135/tcp open msrpc
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
123/udp open ntp
137/udp open netbios-ns

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Using this machine as target of our tests, we can open a
Windows terminal and use nbtstat -A to start gathering
information about it. Notice that on Windows systems,
nbtstat is already installed.
The full command will look like the following:
C:\>nbtstat -A <target_IP_Address>

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The following is the output we will obtain:

From here we can see that the computer name is ELS-WINXP

and that the domain name is WORKGROUP.
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A very important line in the previous output is:
ELS-WINXP <20> UNIQUE Registered

If you recall from the table displayed earlier, the number

<20> identifies a server service. This means that the host has
file and printer shares enabled, therefore we may be able to
access them.

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If we are using Linux, there are others tools that allow us to
obtain similar information. One of the most popular is
nbtscan. The most basic command to run is the following:

nbtscan -v [target_IP_Address]

-v is used to set the verbosity of

the output

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It is worth noting that nbtscan is also able to scan multiple
addresses. For example we can instruct the tool to scan all
the IP addresses in our target network, see below:

nbtscan -v 192.168.99.0/24

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The tools we have seen up to this point operate using the
NetBIOS Naming Service (NBNS). If we inspect the traffic with
Wireshark we will see a few messages like these:

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 With this information, we can now move on and verify what
the target machine is sharing over the network.
To do so we can use the Microsoft net command. The net
command offers many features such as the ability to update
user accounts, display, view and modify services, connect
computers to shared resources and much more.
For our purposes we will focus on the net view command.
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Net view allows us to list domains, computers and resources
shared by a computer in the network. Let us see how to use it
against our previous target. The command we are going to
run is the following:
C:\>net view 192.168.99.162

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 As we can see from the previous screenshot, the command
completes successfully and lists the resources shared by the
target machine.
To explore these shares we can simply browse them by
utilizing the net use command.

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The net use command can be used to connect or disconnect
a computer from a shared resource. This means that we can
connect our computer to the remote shared folder in order to
navigate the remote folders.
For example, if we want to start a connection on the C
resource, we can use the following command:
net use K: \\192.168.99.162\C

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The command in the previous slide, will add the K: drive to
our mapped drives thus, containing the files and folders from
the victim C resource. We can now explore these files or
attach others shares to see if the machine exposed useful
information.

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If you are using a Linux machine, the same results can be
obtained with different tools. If we want to list all the shares
of a specific computer we can use smbclient as follows:
smbclient –L 192.168.99.162

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As you can see, smbclient also displays a few other hidden
shares such as IPC$, C$ and ADMIN$. You can identify hidden
shares since they have a $ sign at the end.
The three shares listed above are the default administrative
shares and have their own specific purpose. For example
IPC$ is used for Inter-Process Communications and can be
used to leverage null session attacks.

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If we wish to navigate the target shares, we can use mount as
an alternative to net use. For example if we want to
navigate the C share, we will run something similar to the
following command.
sudo mount.cifs //192.168.99.162/C /media/K_share/ user=,pass=

After we run it, we will be able to browse the remote share:

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We have seen thus far some examples of basic NetBIOS
information that we can gather from Windows and Linux
Operating Systems.
Now we will move on to other tools and commands that can
also provide a great deal of additional information. We will
also query the NetBIOS API and exploit null sessions.

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Before digging into a tool or command, let’s clarify what a
null session is and how it works.
Null sessions are one of the oldest and most known attacks
performed on Windows 2000 and Windows NT environments.
Thanks to this weakness, malicious users are able to establish
a connection to the victim in order to gather information such
as shares, users, groups, registry keys and much more.

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Null sessions rely on Common Internet File System (CIFS) and
Server Message Block (SMB) API, that return information
even to an unauthenticated user.
In other words, a malicious user can establish a connection to
a Windows system without providing any username or
password. In order for the attack to work, the connection
must be established to the administrative share named IPC
(Inter Process Communication).

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The easiest way to test if a machine is vulnerable to null
session is by running the net command. Note that in contrast
to the connection we established in the previous slides, we
are going to target the IPC$ share instead:

As we can see in the screenshot, the command works. From

this moment on, we have an active connection to our victim.
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 net use \\192.168.99.162\IPC$ "" /u:""

Let’s explain the previous command. We are:

• establishing a connection to the hidden share IPC$
• at the IP address 192.168.99.168
• with a null password
• and an empty (anonymous) username.
Once we have a connection, we can use other tools to gather
information from the remote machine.
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Since we wish to gather as much information as we can, we
will use different tools specifically designed to exploit null
sessions. As you will see, we will be able to automatically
gather a great deal of information from the remote machine.
Notice that some of these tools are very old and OS
dependent therefore, we will use both Windows or Linux.

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The first tool we are going to use is called Winfigerprint.
Winfigerprint is an administrative network resource scanner
that allows us to scan machines in our LAN in order to gather
details about each host. This includes NetBIOS shares, disk
information, services, users, groups, and more.
By selecting the boxes in its GUI, we are able to enumerate
information such as user SID, password policy, users, shares
and much more.

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As shown in the following screenshot, we just need to specify
the hosts we want to scan, the NIC to use and the information
we want to gather.

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Once everything is set, we can click on Scan and the tool will
automatically exploit the null session. The results will be
displayed in the bottom section of the GUI.

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As you can see, it is very simple to use and it returns a very
healthy amount of valuable information.
By inspecting the results, we can read users available on the
machine, password policies (useful for later bruteforce
attacks), groups, users SIDs and much more.

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Winfo is another simple enumeration tool for NetBIOS as it
displays all the information through null sessions. In contrast
with the previous tool, it does not offer a graphical interface.
Instead we will have to run it from our command prompt.
The command to execute it is very simple:
winfo <target_IP_Address> -n

where -n tells the tool to establish a null session before

trying to dump the information.
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The following snippet shows the winfo results:
Null session established.
USER ACCOUNTS:
* Administrator
(This account is the built-in administrator account)
* eLS
* Frank
* Guest
(This account is the built-in guest account)
* HelpAssistant
* netadmin
* SUPPORT_388945a0
SHARES:
* My Documents
* IPC$
* Frank
...
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The final Windows tool we are going to inspect is called
DumpSec (former DumpAcl).
DumpSec is an auditing tool that is able to gather file system
information, registry, shares, users, groups and much more. It
can be used both via its graphical interface or the command
line.

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Once the we start the tool, we have to select our target by
clicking on Report->Select Computer. Then we just need
to type the IP address of our target: \\192.168.99.162.

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After the target has been selected, we can instruct the tool to
gather the information we want by clicking on Report and
selecting what to dump. Here we
are going to click on Dump Users
as column and select some of
the available fields.
When everything is set, we have
to click on OK and wait for the tool
to gather the information selected.
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Once the tool completes its tasks, the information will be well
organized in the main windows.

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As you can imagine, depending upon the selected report you
can gather a large amount of valuable information from the
remote system. Moreover, the tool allows us to both search
and export the results for later inspection.
Be sure to gather all the information you think may be useful
for the later phases of the penetration test.

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 The tools studied up to this point only on run the Windows
operating systems. Let’s now take a look at some similar tools
for Linux.
The first tool we are going to explore is enum4linux. This is
basically a wrapper around rpcclient, net, nmblookup and
smbclient.
As you will see, enum4linux is both very easy to use and
returns a great deal of valuable information. We can run it
with the following command:
enum4linux <target_IP_Address>
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Using our previous target, we will acquire output similar to
the following:

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Although the previous screenshots show a small subset of the
information obtained, enum4linux will gather and organize
the information in the following way:
• Target Information • Share Enumeration
• Workgroup/Domain • Password Policy
• Domain SID • Groups
• OS information • Users SID
• Users • Printer info

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 Another tool we can use on Linux operating systems is
rpcclient, a tool that can execute Microsoft RPC (Remote
Procedure Call) functionalities. As we will see in future slides,
it offers a multitude of commands that we can run on a
remote machine.
In order to use it however, we must first establish a
connection to the remote machine.
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We can achieve this with the following command:
rpcclient -N -U "" <target_IP_Address>

where:
• -N instructs rpcclient not to ask for the password
• -U "" sets the network username (none in this case)
Once the command completes, the prompt changes and we
are able to interact with it. We can list all the available
commands with the help command.
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As you will see in the help output, there is a very long list of
commands we can run. Each option will return specific
information from the remote system. For example, we can
retrieve the users available on the machine using the
following command:
rpcclient $> enumdomusers
user:[Administrator] rid:[0x1f4]
user:[eLS] rid:[0x3eb]
user:[Frank] rid:[0x3ed]
user:[Guest] rid:[0x1f5]
user:[HelpAssistant] rid:[0x3e8]
user:[netadmin] rid:[0x3ec]
user:[SUPPORT_388945a0] rid:[0x3ea]
rpcclient $>

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Notice that the tool offers the autocomplete feature! This
simple means you can type part of the desired command and
then list all the available options by hitting tab two times, see
below:

A small list of useful commands you may wish to run are as

follows: enumalsgroups, srvinfo, lookupnames,
queryuser, enumprivs.
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As you can see in the following screenshot, rpcclient offers
some very interesting commands. We suggest you test them
in order to see how they work.

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SNMP Stands for Simple Network Management Protocol and
it is used for exchanging management information between
network devices.
For example, SNMP may be used to configure a router or
simply check its status.

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In the SNMP protocol there is a manager and a number of
agents. The agents either wait for the commands from the
manager or send critical messages (trap) to the manager. The
manager is usually a system administrator.

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 Read There are four types of SNMP
commands used to control and monitor
Write managed devices:
• Read
Trap • Write
• Trap
Traversal • Traversal Operations
Operations

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The read command is used to monitor devices, while the
write command is used to configure devices and change
device settings.
The trap command is used to "trap" events from the device
and report them back to the monitoring system.
Traversal operations are used to determine what variables a
certain device supports.

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There are multiple versions of SNMP however, all have their
challenges with security.
SNMPv1 is both the original and most vulnerable (clear text
protocol) however, SNMPv2 is just as likely to be
compromised given its inherent weaknesses.
SNMPv3 is the newest version and, although it uses
encryption, it is still susceptible to attacks like brute forcing.

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SNMP receives general messages on UDP port 161 and trap
messages on UDP 162. SNMP works on the basis that
network management systems send out a request and the
managed devices (agents) return a response.
This is implemented using one of four operations (similar to
HTTP verbs): Get, GetNext, Set, and Trap.

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SNMP messages consist of a header and a PDU (protocol data
units). The headers consist of the SNMP version number and
the community string, which is used as a form of “secure”
password authentication in SNMP.
It is important to know that there are two types of
community names or strings: Private and Public.
• Private community strings allow access to "write" rights
• Public allows for "read" rights on the system.

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The PDU depends on the type of message that is being sent.
The Get, GetNext and Set, as well as the PDU responses,
consist of PDU type, Request ID, Error status, Error index and
Object/variable fields.
The Trap contains files like Enterprise, Agent, Agent address,
Generic trap type, Specific trap code, Timestamp and
Object/Value.

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 MIBs (Management Information Base) are a collection of
definitions which define the properties of the managed
object on the device (such as a router, switch, etc.).
In other words, it is a database of information that is relevant
to the network manager.

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In order to keep items well organized, the database is
structured as a tree thus, each object of this tree has a
number and a name.
The complete path, from the top of the tree down to the
point of interest, forms the name of that point called an OID
(Object Identifier).
Nodes near the top of the tree are extremely general in
nature.

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 You will find that all of the OID’s will
start with 1.3.6.1. Each leaf in the
tree is a property of the device that
can be read/written by the manager.
A query will have to specify the OID
address such as 1.3.6.1.4.1.140.305
(beaDomainList).
A sample of OID tree from an Oracle device
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For example, to navigate to the Internet object, one has to
reach to the fourth tier of the tree.
As one moves further down, the names become more and
more specific. Once near the bottom, each node represents a
particular feature on a specific device (or agent).

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The following is a brief list of attacks that one can run against
SNMP, which we will inspect in detail in future slides:
• DOS attack which involves spoofing an SNMP agent and flooding
Flooding the SNMP trap management with tens of thousands of SNMP
traps, varying in size from 50 bytes to 32 kilobytes, until the
SNMP management trap is unable to function properly.

Community • Using Default community strings to gain privileged access to

systems

Brute force • Using a tool to guess the community strings used on a system to
achieve elevated privileges.

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Enumeration of SNMP information happens by utilizing tools
and methods to list the information available within the
system.
The type and amount of information will depend on the
community string obtained, therefore the first skill to master
is how to obtain the community strings.

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One of the easiest ways to obtain a community string is to
sniff the network traffic.
Since SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 utilize clear text communications,
it is easy to sniff the passwords coming from the network
management systems.

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Another way of obtaining the string is by using a dictionary
attack. As you can imagine, having a good dictionary is key
when performing this type of attack.
Beware though, most current Network Intrusion Detection
Systems will alert to this activity as it sees the multiple login
attempts with different strings.

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Once we acquire the string, we can move on to other tools in
order to extract information from the remote device. Notice
that read access is enough to extract a wealth of information
(useful for later attacks).
Now that we know the steps to perform, let us see what tools
we can use to achieve our goal.

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 Snmpwalk (part of the Net-SNMP suite) uses SNMP GETNEXT
requests to query a network entity for a tree of information.
Since an object identifier (OID) may be given on the
command line, knowing the OID of the target device may be
very useful.

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http://www.net-snmp.org/
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This OID specifies which portion of the object identifier space
will be searched using GETNEXT requests.
All variables in the subtree below the given OID are queried
and their values presented to the user. If no OID is present,
snmpwalk will search the subtree rooted at SNMPv2-
SMI::mib-2 (including any MIB object values from other
MIB modules that are defined as lying within this subtree).

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If the network entity has an error processing the request
packet, an error packet will be returned. A message will then
be shown, helping to pinpoint the reason the request was
malformed.
If the tree search attempts to search beyond the end of the
MIB, the message "End of MIB" will be displayed.

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In a basic scenario, snmpwalk takes a single OID, and displays
a list of all the results. These resided within the subtree
rooted on this OID.
We will show a snippet of the output in the next slide. Notice
that, since the tool outputs a wealth of information, we may
want to pipe the requests to files for later inspections.

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Here is the output of snmpwalk against our target machine:
stduser@els:~$ snmpwalk -v 2c 192.168.102.149 -c public
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Hardware: Intel64 Family 6 Model 42
Stepping 7 AT/AT COMPATIBLE - Software: Windows Version 6.1 (Build
7601 Multiprocessor Free)
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.311.1.1.3.1.1
DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (872094) 2:25:20.94
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING:
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: els
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING:

The -v option specifies the SNMP version to use (2c), while

-c sets the community string to use (public).
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 IMPORTANT
If the output returns the OID numerically, as the following
example,
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Hardware: Intel64 Family..."

please be sure to install the snmp-mibs-downloader

package. Once installed, comment the fourth line in the
following file /etc/snmp/snmp.conf:

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Snmpwalk can also be used with either a single MIB object, or
even an exact OID instance (returning the corresponding
value). We will see an example in the next slide.

Conversely, it is also possible to start the walk at a higher

level, retrieving more than one group of information. This
would typically retrieve all the information known to an
agent.

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If we want to list only the software installed on the machine
we can specify the following OID:
stduser@els:~$ snmpwalk -c public -v1 192.168.102.149 hrSWInstalledName
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalledName.1 = STRING: "Microsoft Visual Studio
2010 Tools for Office Runtime (x64)"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalledName.2 = STRING: "OpenVPN 2.3.8-I601 "
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalledName.4 = STRING: "WinRAR 5.01 beta 1"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalledName.5 = STRING: "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010
x64 Redistributable - 10.0.40219"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalledName.6 = STRING: "Java 8 Update 31"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalledName.7 = STRING: "VMware Tools"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalledName.8 = STRING: "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008
Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.6161"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalledName.9 = STRING: "Java SE Development Kit 7"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalledName.11 = STRING: "Microsoft .NET Framework
4.5.1"
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 Snmpwalk is very useful in gaining information from a system
but, as stated earlier, one must minimally understand how
SNMP works. Moreover, we strongly suggest you check its
manual, since it offers both useful and customizable options.

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 Snmpset (part of the Net-SNMP suite) is an SNMP application
that uses SNMP SET requests to either set or change
information on a network entity.
In other words, the SET operation allows either the
management application or, the manager, to set the value of
an attribute (of a managed object) in the agent.

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Please note that one or more object identifiers (OIDs) must
be given as arguments on the command line.
In addition to the OID, a type (string, integer, etc.) and a
value must also be provided.

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Before actually setting the new value for a specific object,
let’s first check its actual value with snmpwalk. In our
example we will target the sysContact OID:
>>snmpwalk -v 2c -c public 192.168.102.149 system.sysContact.0
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: [email protected]

As we can see, at the moment, the value is set to

[email protected] and the type is STRING.

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Let us now try to both change its value with the following
snmpset command and then print its value to verify the
changes.
>>snmpset -v 2c -c public 192.168.102.149 system.sysContact.0 s [email protected]
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: [email protected]

Above, s tells snmpset that we want to use a STRING type,

while [email protected] is the new value for the entity. Let us run
the snmpwalk once again and see what we get:
Changed!
snmpwalk -v 2c -c public 192.168.102.149 system.sysContact.0
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: [email protected]

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Notice that in snmpset the -v and -c options are used in the
same way as snmpwalk. The only difference really is that we
have two new arguments: one for the type and one for the
value we are going to set.
We can see all the available types in the snmpset manual:

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As you already know, Nmap is one of the most powerful tools
we can use during our scanning and enumerating phase.
When facing SNMP services, Nmap comes with some basic,
yet useful scripts: snmp-brute, snmp-info, snmp-
interfaces, snmp-netstat, snmp-processes, snmp-
sysdescr, snmp-win32-services and few more.
You can list them by navigating into the Nmap script folder
and then running the following command:
stduser@els:/usr/share/nmap/scripts$ ls -l | grep -i snmp

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Depending on the script you wish to run, you may have to set
different options. Most of these can be executed with the
following syntax as long as you are running as root:
nmap -sU -p 161 --script=<script_name> <IP_address>

Let’s take a look at some examples to better understand what

information we can obtain from these scripts.

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The first script we want to run allows us to enumerate the
services available on the target machine:
sudo nmap -sU -p 161 --script=snmp-win32-services 192.168.102.149

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As you can imagine, depending upon the script run, we will
be able to gather very specific information from the remote
host.
We suggest you try these scripts in order to see how they
work and what kind of information SNMP may reveal.

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Another useful script that we can use from Nmap is snmp-
brute. The script tries to brute force the community name
used by the remote SNMP device by using its own wordlists.
Snmp-brute is quite fast and is able to find the community
names in a matter of minutes.

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Let us suppose we have found a machine running a SNMP
service but, unfortunately, we do not know the correct
community string. We can run the Nmap snmp-brute script to
find the correct string to use.
The easiest way to run it is using this command:
sudo nmap -sU -p 161 192.168.102.149 --script snmp-brute

Notice that the default wordlist used by Nmap is stored here:

/usr/share/nmap/nselib/data/snmpcommunities.lst.

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Let’s see results from the previous command:

As we can see from the screenshot, Nmap finds two valid

community strings: public and admin.
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 Since the default community string wordlist is quite small,
Nmap offers the ability to use a custom wordlist by adding
the following option to the previous command:
--script-args snmp-brute.communitiesdb=<wordlist>

We just need to replace <wordlist> with the path of our

own wordlist. If you have the seclists package on your
machine, you can find a good wordlist at the following path:
/usr/share/seclists/Misc/wordlist-common-snmp-community-strings.txt
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Let’s modify the previous command and use our own wordlist
this time. The complete command will read as follows:
sudo nmap -sU -p 161 192.168.102.149 --script snmp-brute --script-args
snmp-brute.communitiesdb=/usr/share/seclists/Misc/wordlist-common-
snmp-community-strings.txt

We have found a new community

string: internal.

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As we have seen, NetBIOS and SNMP provide a wealth of
information to a pen tester. As previously stated, be sure to
store all information obtained from these protocols as it may
be valuable later in additional tests.
These are not the only services that may reveal information:
SSH, FTP, Telnet, DNS, HTTP/S, LDAP, SQL servers, NFS, IPSec
and many more should be also be the targets of our tests. We
will explore some of them in the next modules.

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NetBIOS RFC 1001 NetBIOS RFC 1002
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1001 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1002

NetBIOS NetBIOS name resolution

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-
versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-
us/library/bb962072.aspx
2003/cc738412(v=ws.10)

Name Service Suffixes WINS Overview

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-
us/library/cc224454.aspx
2008-R2-and-2008/cc725802(v=ws.11)

What is WINS WINS defined

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-
versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server- versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-
2003/cc784180(v=ws.10) 2003/cc784707(v=ws.10)

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SMB directly over TCP/IP Nbtstat
https://support.microsoft.com/en- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-
us/help/204279/direct-hosting-of-smb-over- versions/windows/it-pro/windows-2000-
tcp-ip server/cc940106(v=technet.10)

Microsoft net command Net view command

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-
versions/windows/it-pro/windows- versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-
xp/bb490949(v=technet.10) 2012-R2-and-2012/hh875576(v=ws.11)

Net use command Enum4Linux

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-
https://labs.portcullis.co.uk/tools/enum4linu
versions/windows/it-pro/windows-
x/
xp/bb490717(v=technet.10)

RPCClient SNMPwalk
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current http://www.net-
/man-html/rpcclient.1.html snmp.org/docs/man/snmpwalk.html

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Net-SNMP SNMPset
http://www.net-
http://www.net-snmp.org/
snmp.org/docs/man/snmpset.html

Seclists
https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists

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NetBIOS and Null
SNMP Enumeration
Session

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NetBIOS Hacking SNMP Analysis
You’re asked to check if it is Your customer is Sportsfoo.com
possible to access the documents and they want your help in order
of the organization from outside test the security of their
the corporate networks. company.

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