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Modbus Unit ID and Station ID Enumerator

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Modbus Unit ID and Station ID Enumerator

Disclosed
10/28/2012
Created
05/30/2018

Description

Modbus is a cleartext protocol used in common SCADA systems, developed originally as a serial-line (RS232) async protocol, and later transformed to IP, which is called ModbusTCP. default tcp port is 502. This module sends a command (0x04, read input register) to the modbus endpoint. If this command is sent to the correct unit-id, it returns with the same function-id. if not, it should be added 0x80, so that it sys 0x84, and an exception-code follows which do not interest us. This does not always happen, but at least the first 4 bytes in the return-packet should be exact the same as what was sent. You can change port, ip and the scan-range for unit-id. There is also added a value - BENICE - to make the scanner sleep a second or more between probes. We have seen installations where scanning too many too fast works like a DoS.

Author(s)

  • EsMnemon <esm@mnemonic.no>

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use auxiliary/scanner/scada/modbus_findunitid
msf auxiliary(modbus_findunitid) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(modbus_findunitid) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(modbus_findunitid) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(modbus_findunitid) > run

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