How to do it...

To perform an SNMP amplification attack, follow the given steps:

  1. To get started, we should craft an SNMP query to be returned to our system to assess the size of the payload to be used. To send our SNMP query request, we must first build the layers of this request. The first layer that we will need to construct is the IP layer:
  1. To build the IP layer of our request, we should assign the IP object to the variable i. By calling the display() function, we can identify the attribute configurations for the object. By default, both the sending and receiving addresses are set to the loopback address of 127.0.0.1. These values can ...

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