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Q1. Justine is the systems administrator for her company, an international shipping company with offices all over the world. Recent US regulations have forced the company to implement stronger and more secure means of communication. Justine and other administrators have been put in charge of securing the company's digital communication lines. After implementing email encryption, Justine now needs to implement robust digital signatures to ensure data authenticity and reliability. Justine has decided to implement digital signatures which are a variant of DSA and that operate on elliptical curve groups. These signatures are more efficient than DSA and are not vulnerable to a number field sieve attacks.
What type of signature has Justine decided to implement?
A. She has decided to implement ElGamal signatures since they offer more reliability than the typical DSA signatures
B. Justine has decided to use ECDSA signatures since they are more efficient than DSA signatures
C. Justine is now utilizing SHA-1 with RSA signatures to help ensure data reliability
D. These types of signatures that Justine has decided to use are called RSA-PSS signatures
Answer: B
Explanation: The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) is a variant of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which uses Elliptic curve cryptography. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_DSA
Q2. Peter has been monitoring his IDS and sees that there are a huge number of ICMP Echo Reply packets that are being received on the External Gateway interface. Further inspection reveals they are not responses from internal hosts request but simply responses coming from the Internet. What could be the likely cause of this?
A. Someone Spoofed Peter’s IP Address while doing a land attack
B. Someone Spoofed Peter’s IP Address while doing a DoS attack
C. Someone Spoofed Peter’s IP Address while doing a smurf Attack
D. Someone Spoofed Peter’s IP address while doing a fraggle attack
Answer: C
Explanation: An attacker sends forged ICMP echo packets to broadcast addresses of vulnerable networks with forged source address pointing to the target (victim) of the attack. All the systems on these networks reply to the victim with ICMP echo replies. This rapidly exhausts the bandwidth available to the target.
Q3. After studying the following log entries, how many user IDs can you identify that the attacker has tampered with?
1. mkdir -p /etc/X11/applnk/Internet/.etc
2. mkdir -p /etc/X11/applnk/Internet/.etcpasswd
3. touch -acmr /etc/passwd /etc/X11/applnk/Internet/.etcpasswd
4. touch -acmr /etc /etc/X11/applnk/Internet/.etc
5. passwd nobody -d
6. /usr/sbin/adduser dns -d/bin -u 0 -g 0 -s/bin/bash
7. passwd dns -d
8. touch -acmr /etc/X11/applnk/Internet/.etcpasswd /etc/passwd
9. touch -acmr /etc/X11/applnk/Internet/.etc /etc
A. IUSR_
B. acmr, dns
C. nobody, dns
D. nobody, IUSR_
Answer: C
Explanation: Passwd is the command used to modify a user password and it has been used together with the usernames nobody and dns.
Q4. You visit a website to retrieve the listing of a company's staff members. But you can not find it on the website. You know the listing was certainly present one year before. How can you retrieve information from the outdated website?
A. Through Google searching cached files
B. Through Archive.org
C. Download the website and crawl it
D. Visit customers' and prtners' websites
Answer: B
Explanation: Archive.org mirrors websites and categorizes them by date and month depending on the crawl time. Archive.org dates back to 1996, Google is incorrect because the cache is only as recent as the latest crawl, the cache is over-written on each subsequent crawl. Download the website is incorrect because that's the same as what you see online. Visiting customer partners websites is just bogus. The answer is then Firmly, C, archive.org
Q5. You have performed the traceroute below and notice that hops 19 and 20 both show the same IP address.
What can be inferred from this output?
1 172.16.1.254 (172.16.1.254) 0.724 ms 3.285 ms 0.613 ms 2 ip68-98-176-1.nv.nv.cox.net (68.98.176.1) 12.169 ms 14.958 ms 13.416 ms 3 ip68-98-176-1.nv.nv.cox.net (68.98.176.1) 13.948 ms ip68-100-0-1.nv.nv.cox.net
(68.100.0.1) 16.743 ms 16.207 ms 4 ip68-100-0-137.nv.nv.cox.net (68.100.0.137) 17.324 ms 12.933 ms 20.938 ms
5 68.1.1.4 (68.1.1.4) 12.439 ms 220.166 ms 204.170 ms 6 so-6-0-0.gar2.wdc1.Level3.net (67.29.170.1) 16.177 ms 25.943 ms 14.104 ms 7 unknown.Level3.net (209.247.9.173) 14.227 ms 17.553 ms 15.415 ms 8 so-0-1-0.bbr1.NewYork1.level3.net (64.159.1.41) 17.063 ms 20.960 ms 19.512 ms 9 so-7-0-0-gar1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.159.1.182) 20.334 ms 19.440 ms 17.938 ms 10 so-4-0-0.edge1.NewYork1.Level3.net (209.244.17.74) 27.526 ms 18.317 ms 21.202 ms 11 uunet-level3-oc48.NewYork1.Level3.net (209.244.160.12) 21.411 ms 19.133 ms 18.830 ms 12 0.so-6-0-0.XL1.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.21.78) 21.203 ms 22.670 ms 20.11 ms 13 0.so-2-0-0.TL1.NYC8.ALTER.NET (152.63.0.153) 30.929 ms 24.858 ms 23.108 ms 14 0.so-4-1-0.TL1.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.10.129) 38.894 ms 33.244 33.910 ms 15 0.so-7-0-0.XL1.MIA4.ALTER.NET (152.63.86.189) 51.165 ms 49.935 ms 49.466 ms 16 0.so-3-0-0.XR1.MIA4.ALTER.NET (152.63.101.41) 50.937 ms 49.005 ms 51.055 ms 17 117.ATM6-0.GW5.MIA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.82.73) 51.897 ms 50.280 ms 53.647 ms 18 example-gwl.customer.alter.net (65.195.239.14) 51.921 ms 51.571 ms 56.855 ms 19 www.ABC.com (65.195.239.22) 52.191 ms 52.571 ms 56.855 ms 20 www.ABC.com (65.195.239.22) 53.561 ms 54.121 ms 58.333 ms
A. An application proxy firewall
B. A stateful inspection firewall
C. A host based IDS
D. A Honeypot
Answer: B
Q6. Study the snort rule given below and interpret the rule.
alert tcp any any --> 192.168.1.0/24 111 (content:"|00 01 86 a5|"; msg: "mountd access";)
A. An alert is generated when a TCP packet is originated from port 111 of any IP address to the
192.168.1.0 subnet
B. An alert is generated when any packet other than a TCP packet is seen on the network and destined for the 192.168.1.0 subnet
C. An alert is generated when a TCP packet is generated from any IP on the 192.168.1.0 subnet and destined to any IP on port 111
D. An alert is generated when a TCP packet originating from any IP address is seen on the network and destined for any IP address on the 192.168.1.0 subnet on port 111
Answer: D
Explanation: Refer to the online documentation on creating Snort rules at http://snort.org/docs/snort_htmanuals/htmanual_261/node147.html
Q7. You are the security administrator for a large online auction company based out of Los Angeles. After getting your ENSA CERTIFICATION last year, you have steadily been fortifying your network’s security including training OS hardening and network security. One of the last things you just changed for security reasons was to modify all the built-in administrator accounts on the local computers of PCs and in Active Directory. After through testing you found and no services or programs were affected by the name changes.
Your company undergoes an outside security audit by a consulting company and they said that even through all the administrator account names were changed, the accounts could still be used by a clever hacker to gain unauthorized access. You argue with the auditors and say that is not possible, so they use a tool and show you how easy it is to utilize the administrator account even though its name was changed.
What tool did the auditors use?
A. sid2user
B. User2sid
C. GetAcct
D. Fingerprint
Answer: A
Explanation: User2sid.exe can retrieve a SID from the SAM (Security Accounts Manager) from the local or a remote machine Sid2user.exe can then be used to retrieve the names of all the user accounts and more.
Q8. When referring to the Domain Name Service, what is denoted by a ‘zone’?
A. It is the first domain that belongs to a company.
B. It is a collection of resource records.
C. It is the first resource record type in the SOA.
D. It is a collection of domains.
Answer: B
Explanation: A reasonable definition of a zone would be a portion of the DNS namespace where responsibility has been delegated.
Q9. Which of the following encryption is not based on Block Cipher?
A. DES
B. Blowfish
C. AES
D. RC4
Answer: D
Explanation: RC4 (also known as ARC4 or ARCFOUR) is the most widely-used software stream cipher and is used in popular protocols such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (to protect Internet traffic) and WEP (to secure wireless networks).
Topic 22, Penetration Testing Methodologies
556. Joel and her team have been going through tons of garbage, recycled paper, and other rubbish in order to find some information about the target they are attempting to penetrate.
What would you call this kind of activity?
A. CI Gathering
B. Scanning
C. Dumpster Diving
D. Garbage Scooping
Q10. Which one of the following attacks will pass through a network layer intrusion detection system undetected?
A. A teardrop attack
B. A SYN flood attack
C. A DNS spoofing attack
D. A test.cgi attack
Answer: D
Explanation: Because a network-based IDS reviews packets and headers, it can also detect denial of service (DoS) attacks
Not A or B:
The following sections discuss some of the possible DoS attacks available.
Smurf Fraggle SYN Flood Teardrop DNS DoS Attacks”
Q11. There are two types of honeypots- high and low interaction. Which of these describes a low interaction honeypot?
Select the best answers.
A. Emulators of vulnerable programs
B. More likely to be penetrated
C. Easier to deploy and maintain
D. Tend to be used for production
E. More detectable
F. Tend to be used for research
Answer: ACDE
Explanations:
A low interaction honeypot would have emulators of vulnerable programs, not the real programs.
A high interaction honeypot is more likely to be penetrated as it is running the real program and is more vulnerable than an emulator.
Low interaction honeypots are easier to deploy and maintain. Usually you would just use a program that is already available for download and install it. Hackers don't usually crash or destroy these types of programs and it would require little maintenance.
A low interaction honeypot tends to be used for production.
Low interaction honeypots are more detectable because you are using emulators of the real programs. Many hackers will see this and realize that they are in a honeypot.
A low interaction honeypot tends to be used for production. A high interaction honeypot tends to be used for research.
Q12. WinDump is a popular sniffer which results from the porting to Windows of TcpDump for Linux. What library does it use ?
A. LibPcap
B. WinPcap
C. Wincap
D. None of the above
Answer: B
Explanation: WinPcap is the industry-standard tool for link-layer network access in Windows environments: it allows applications to capture and transmit network packets bypassing the protocol stack, and has additional useful features, including kernel-level packet filtering, a network statistics engine and support for remote packet capture.
Q13. Jack Hackers wants to break into Brown’s Computers and obtain their secret double fudge cookie recipe. Jack calls Jane, an accountant at Brown Co. pretending to be an administrator from Brown Co. Jack tell Jane that there has been a problem with some accounts and asks her to verify her password with him “just to double check our records”. Jane does not suspect anything amiss and parts her password. Jack can now access Brown Co.’s computer with a valid username and password to steal the cookie recipe. What kind of attack is being illustrated here?
A. Faking Identity
B. Spoofing Identity
C. Social Engineering
D. Reverse Psychology
E. Reverse Engineering
Answer: C
Explanation: Social engineering is a collection of techniques used to manipulate people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery for information gathering or computer system access and in most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victim.
Q14. What port number is used by LDAP protocol?
A. 110
B. 389
C. 445
D. 464
Answer: B
Explanation: Active Directory and Exchange use LDAP via TCP port 389 for clients.
Q15. You have discovered that an employee has attached a modem to his telephone line and workstation. He has used this modem to dial in to his workstation, thereby bypassing your firewall. A security breach has occurred as a direct result of this activity. The employee explains that he used the modem because he had to download software for a department project. What can you do to solve this problem?
A. Install a network-based IDS
B. Reconfigure the firewall
C. Conduct a needs analysis
D. Enforce your security policy
Answer: D
Explanation: The employee was unaware of security policy.