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onesixtyone

Fast SNMP scanner that brute-forces community strings across many hosts in parallel.

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OVERVIEW

onesixtyone (trailofbits/onesixtyone) is a fast SNMP scanner purpose-built for one job: fire a wordlist of candidate community strings at a list of hosts and report which combination gets a response. It sends requests asynchronously rather than waiting for a timeout on each one, which lets it sweep a whole subnet for exposed SNMP agents in a fraction of the time a naive per-host snmpwalk loop would take.

It deliberately does not enumerate MIB data itself — that is snmpwalk's or snmp-check's job — so the normal workflow is running onesixtyone first to shortlist responsive host/string pairs, then handing that shortlist to a deeper enumeration tool.

USE CASES

Practical use cases

  • 01

    Sweeping a whole subnet or IP range to find every host that answers to a known community string.

  • 02

    Brute-forcing a wordlist of common or client-provided community strings against a single host.

  • 03

    Prioritizing which hosts deserve a full snmpwalk instead of walking every host on the range one by one.

  • 04

    Quickly re-checking a subnet after a remediation to confirm SNMP community strings were actually rotated.

QUICK START

Across a range with SNMP potentially exposed, to quickly find which hosts respond to a wordlist of community strings before enumerating each one manually.

  1. Confirm SNMP (UDP 161) sweeping across this range is in scope.
  2. Build or reuse a community-string wordlist (the bundled dict.txt is a reasonable start).
  3. Run onesixtyone against the target range or host list with that wordlist.
  4. Take every responsive host/string pair and hand it to snmpwalk for the actual MIB enumeration.
onesixtyone -c dict.txt -i hosts.txt

BEFORE YOU RUN IT

What to check before running it

Its speed comes from sending requests without waiting for each timeout, which can look like a burst scan to a monitored network — throttle it on sensitive segments.

A responsive community string only confirms brute-force succeeded; treat the actual data exposure (from a follow-up snmpwalk) as the real finding, not the hit itself.

Like any SNMPv1/v2c tool, it sends community strings in plaintext, so results can be visible to anyone sniffing the same segment.

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