Exam 5: ECCouncil Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator

What is the purpose of a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card in a pen testing engagement?

George works at 3D-Networks Ltd as a Network Admin. He received an email from one of his clients stating that the client's company website has some flaws and they are receiving continuous emails from customers about the inconveniencies. While checking the web servers, he found loopholes with the DNS servers and he installed DNSSEC-Aware lookups. This made the site functional and the client was happy with the outcome. What problem does a Non-DNSSEC-Aware site face?

A consultant is hired to do physical penetration testing at a large financial company. In the first day of his assessment, the consultant goes to the company`s building dressed like an electrician and waits in the lobby for an employee to pass through the main access gate, then the consultant follows the employee behind to get into the restricted area. Which type of attack did the consultant perform?

William, a penetration tester in a pen test firm, was asked to get the information about the SMTP server on a target network. What does William need to do to get the SMTP server information?

Irin is a newly joined penetration tester for XYZ Ltd. While joining, as a part of her training, she was instructed about various legal policies and information securities acts by her trainer. During the training, she was informed about a specific information security act related to the conducts and activities like it is illegal to perform DoS attacks on any websites or applications, it is illegal to supply and own hacking tools, it is illegal to access unauthorized computer material, etc. To which type of information security act does the above conducts and activities best suit?

How can telnet be used to fingerprint a web server?

A penetration tester was hired to perform a penetration test for a bank.  The tester began searching for IP ranges owned by the bank, performing lookups on the bank's DNS servers, reading news articles online about the bank, watching what times the bank employees come into work and leave from work, searching the bank's job postings (paying special attention to IT related jobs), and visiting the local dumpster for the bank's corporate office. What phase of the penetration test is the tester currently in?

The penetration testing team of MirTech Inc. identified the presence of various vulnerabilities in the web application coding. They prepared a detailed report addressing to the web developers regarding the findings. In the report, the penetration testing team advised the web developers to avoid the use of dangerous standard library functions. They also informed the web developers that the web application copies the data without checking whether it fits into the target destination memory and is susceptible in supplying the application with large amount of data. According to the findings by the penetration testing team, which type of attack was possible on the web application?

What are the three types of authentication?

You are performing information gathering for an important penetration test. You have found pdf, doc, and images in your objective. You decide to extract metadata from these files and analyze it. What tool will help you with the task?

Cedric, who is a software support executive working for Panacx Tech. Inc., was asked to install Ubuntu operating system in the computers present in the organization. After installing the OS, he came to know that there are many unnecessary services and packages in the OS that were automatically installed without his knowledge. Since these services or packages can be potentially harmful and can create various security threats to the host machine, he was asked to disable all the unwanted services. In order to stop or disable these unnecessary services or packages from the Ubuntu distributions, which of the following commands should Cedric employ?

The intrusion detection system at a software development company suddenly generates multiple alerts regarding attacks against the company's external webserver, VPN concentrator, and DNS servers.  What should the security team do to determine which alerts to check first?

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You are performing a penetration test. You achieved access via a buffer overflow exploit and you proceed to find interesting data, such as files with usernames and passwords. You find a hidden folder that has the administrator's bank account password and login information for the administrator's bitcoin account. What should you do?

John is a penetration tester who wants to perform port scan on the DNS Server (IP address: 192.168.0.124) deployed in the perimeter. In his primary research, he identified that the DNS server is configured with default settings. Since he is employing Nmap tool to perform port scanning, which of the following Nmap commands should John execute to port scan the DNS Server?

The purpose of a __________ is to deny network access to local area networks and other information assets by unauthorized wireless devices.

Clark, a professional hacker, decided to bring down the services provided by the target organization. In the initial information-gathering stage, he detected some vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP protocol stack of the victim's system. He exploited these vulnerabilities to create multiple malformed packets in ample magnitude and has sent these unusually crafted packets to the victim's machine. Identify the type of attack being performed by Clark?

A company is using Windows Server 2003 for its Active Directory (AD). What is the most efficient way to crack the passwords for the AD users?

Which tool would be used to collect wireless packet data?

A network administrator received an administrative alert at 3:00 a.m. from the intrusion detection system. The alert was generated because a large number of packets were coming into the network over ports 20 and 21. During analysis, there were no signs of attack on the FTP servers. How should the administrator classify this situation?