‫The simple network management protocol S&P.
‫Is used to query networked devices for information such as bandwidth utilization, collision rates and
‫a whole lot of other information.
‫But it doesn't only provide network management and monitoring capabilities.
‫But it's also capable of changing the configurations on the host, allowing the remote management of
‫the network device.
‫Yes, I can tell this gets you excited, huh?
‫My young apprentice.
‫And you are right.
‫So S&P servers can offer considerable information for penetration testers to perform reconnaissance
‫on a specific system, you may also see S&P installations on some operating systems to specify information
‫such as CPU utilization, free memory and so on.
‫It's often automatically installed on many network devices with public and the restring string and private
‫in the right string.
‫On Windows based devices by poorly configured S&P, you can extract patch levels, running services,
‫usernames, uptime routes and, well, so much information that it'll totally level up the penetration
‫test for you.
‫So let's use the services command to search for S&P service.
‫And yes, indeed, you only have to open the S&P report on Matus voidable three.
‫The version is one.
‫As an MP, version one and version two, both have proven security flaws, but S&P version three is
‫improved with encryption as well as better check mechanisms.
‫But anyway, I'll search for S&P auxiliaries.
‫And this time I'm going to start with S&P Inam.
‫Show me the options.
‫Oh, and by the way, the community strings are essentially passwords that are used to read or write
‫information to a device.
‫So if the S&P version is right and you guessed the community strings.
‫The S&P itself can allow anything from excessive information disclosure to full system compromise.
‫Let me give you an example, if you get the read right, S&P community string for a Cisco router, you
‫can download, modify and upload the configuration to the router with a back door.
‫So here, I'm not going to change the community variable.
‫I will just set the port to one six one.
‫And yeah, everything looks quite good.
‫Now, I'll run the namaliu.
‫So as you can see, S&P brings all the information about the target, Métis voidable three.
‫From running applications to network interfaces.
‫Service information, device information, user renumeration, nearly everything about the target.