Question 1
Sam was asked to conduct penetration tests on one of the client's internal networks. As part of the testing
process, Sam performed enumeration to gain information about computers belonging to a domain, list of
shares on the individual hosts in the network, policies and passwords.
Identify the enumeration technique.
NetBIOS Enumeration
SMTP Enumeration
NTP Enumeration
DNS Enumeration
Question 2
Matthew is working on a pen test engagement. In the vulnerability scanning phase, he has identified a vulnerability giving him remote access to the target machine. Matthew uses the Metasploit framework and gains a meterpreter session on the target machine. However, when Matthew tries to dump the password hashes from the remote machine, he receives an error that permission is denied. Which of the following Metasploit exploits escalate his privileges on the target machine?
exploit/multi/handler
exploit/windows/local/bypassuac
exploit/windows/dcerpc/ms03_026_dcom
exploit/windows/smb/psexec
Question 3
Christen is a renowned SQL penetration testing specialist in the US. A multinational ecommerce company hired him to check for vulnerabilities in the SQL database. Christen wanted to perform SQL penetration testing on the database by entering a massive amount of data to crash the web application of the company and discover coding errors that may lead to a SQL injection attack. Which of the following testing techniques is Christen using?
Fuzz Testing
Automated Exploitation
Stored Procedure Injection
Union Exploitation
Question 4
During penetration testing on some mobile devices, Steve discovered a suspicious application (apk) installed on a device that had permissions to access the device's camera, phonebook, storage, etc. He, then used code analysis tools to gather valuable information regarding the application's source code, proprietary IP, etc in an attempt to obtain the origin of the application.
Which of the following techniques did Steve implement, in order to obtain the latter information?
Code encryption
Code signing
Reverse coding
Reverse engineering
Question 5
Jason is working on a pentesting assignment. He is sending customized ICMP packets to a host in the
target”network.”However,”the”ping”requests”to”the”target”failed”with””ICMP”Time”Exceeded”Type”=”11” error messages.
What can Jason do to overcome this error?
Increase the TTL value in the packets
Increase the Window size in the packets
Set a Fragment Offset
Increase the ICMP header length
Question 6
Identify the PRGA from the following screenshot:
0842 0201 000f b5ab cb9d 0014 6c7e 4080
replay_src-0124-161120.cap
fragment-0124-161129.xor
0505 933f af2f 740e
Question 7
A large IT based company hired Gary, a penetration tester, to perform mobile penetration testing in the
organization. Gary knows that mobile penetration testing requires rooting/jailbreaking of mobile devices. Gary observed that most of the employees in the organization are using iPhones.
Which of the following tools should Gary use to jailbreak the mobile devices?
Pangu
SuperOneClick
One Click Root
Superboot
Question 8
Which of the following is true about Full-duplex TCP service?
Full-duplex service allows sending information in both directions between two nodes, but only one direction or the other can be utilized at a time
Full-duplex services are the only services that provide error free delivery
Full-duplex is the only service that provides reliable data delivery
Full-duplex service allows data flow in each direction, independent of the other direction
Question 9
An attacker injects malicious query strings in user input fields to bypass the web service authentication mechanisms and to access back-end databases.
Which of the following attacks is this?
Frame Injection Attack
LDAP Injection Attack
SOAP Injection Attack
XPath Injection Attack
Question 10
In an attempt to assess the security configuration of the firewall deployed on the client's network, you test
whether a particular port on the firewall is open or closed. You use the hping utility with the following syntax:
#hping -S -c 1 -p <port> <IP Address> -t <TTL>
What response will indicate the particular port is allowed in the firewall?
No Response
ICMP Port Unreachable
TTL Exceeded
Host Unreachable
Question 11
Identify the attack from the description below:
I. User A sends an ARP request to a switch
II. The switch broadcasts the ARP request in the network
An attacker eavesdrops on the ARP request and responds by spoofing as a legitimate user IV. The attacker sends his MAC address to User A
ARP poisoning
ARP injection
MAC spoofing
ARP flooding
Question 12
Mike, was asked by his Information Security Office to recommend a firewall for the company's internal network which works at the network level of the OSI model. The firewall must filter the network traffic based on specified session rules, such as when a session is initiated by a recognized computer.
Which of the following firewall types should Mike recommend to his Information Security Office?
Circuit Level Gateway
Stateful Multilayer Inspection Firewall
Application Level Firewall
Packet Filtering Firewall
Question 13
Sam is a penetration tester and network admin at McLaren & McLaren, based out of Washington. The
Company has recently deployed IPv6 in their network. Sam found problems with the protocol implementation and tried to redeploy IPv6 over IPv4. This time, he used the tunneling mechanism while deploying the IPv6 network.
How does the tunneling mechanism works?
It replaces IPv4 with IPv6
It encapsulates IPv6 packets in IPv4 packets
It transfers IPv4 first and the IPv6
It splits the IPv4 packets and provide a way to IPv6
Question 14
Stanley, a pen tester needs to perform various tests to detect SQL injection vulnerabilities. He has to make a list of all input fields whose values could be used in crafting a SQL query. This includes the hidden fields of POST requests and then test them separately, attempting to interfere with the query and cause an error to generate as a result.
In which of the following tests is the source code of the application tested in a non-runtime environment to
detect the SQL injection vulnerabilities?
Dynamic Testing
Source Code Testing
Function Testing
Static Testing
Question 15
Richard, a penetration tester was asked to assess a web application. During the assessment, he discovered a file upload field where users can upload their profile pictures. While scanning the page for vulnerabilities, Richard found a file upload exploit on the web site. Richard wants to test the web application by uploading a malicious PHP shell, but the web page denied the file upload. Trying to get around the security, Richard added the 'jpg' extension to the end of the file. The new file name ended with '.php.jpg'. He then used the Burp suite tool and removed the 'jpg' extension from the request while uploading the file. This enabled him to successfully upload the PHP shell.
Which of the following techniques has Richard implemented to upload the PHP shell?
Cookie tampering
Parameter tampering
Session stealing
Cross site scripting
Question 16
National Insurance, a large insurance services provider based out of Atlanta, US, was worried about the
security of their information assets due to an increase in the number of data breaches occurring around the world. The company requested Anthony, to perform a comprehensive security audit of the company's
information systems. Anthony, decided to collect some preliminary information about National Insurance's
network. During this phase, Anthony used the 46Bouncer utility to understand the complexity of his
new
assignment.
What is Anthony trying to ascertain by using the 46Bouncer utility?
The use of IPv6 in the company's network
The use of mail servers in the company's network
The type of perimeter security solutions used in the company 's network
Deployment of a honeypot in the company
Question 17
Which type of penetration testing will require you to send the Internal Control Questionnaires (ICQ) to the client?
Unannounced testing
Blind testing
White-box testing
Black-box testing
Question 18
Depp Networks is a leader in providing ethical hacking services. They were tasked to examine the strength of a client network. After using a wide range of tests, they finally zeroed in on ICMP tunneling to bypass the firewall.
What factor makes ICMP tunneling appropriate to bypass the firewall?
Firewalls can not handle the fragmented packets
Deep packet inspection
Firewalls can not inspect ICMP packets
The payload portion is arbitrary and not examined by most firewalls
Question 19
Adam is working as a senior penetration tester at Eon Tech Services Ltd. The company asked him to perform penetration testing on their database. The company informs Adam they use Microsoft SQL Server. As a part of the penetration testing, Adam wants to know the complete information about the company's database. He uses the Nmap tool to get the information.
Which of the following Nmap commands will Adam use to get the information?
nmap -p1801 --script ms-sql-info
nmap -p1443 --script ms-sql-info
nmap -p2051 --script ms-sql-info
nmap -p1521 --script ms-sql-info
Question 20
Karen is a Network engineer at ITSec, a reputed MNC based in Philadelphia, USA. She wants to retrieve the DNS records from the publicly available servers. She searched using Google for the providers DNS Information and found the following sites:
http://www.dnsstuff.com
https://dnsquery.org
Through these sites she got the DNS records information as she wished.
What information is contained in DNS records?
Information such as mail server extensions, IP addresses etc.
Information about the DNS logs.
Information about local MAC addresses.
Information about the database servers and its services.
Question 21
A company has recently witnessed a security breach and sensitive customer data was published online. Arnold has been specifically asked to check for the different ways insiders can pass data outside of the company. In order to avoid IDS and data leakage prevention systems, Arnold hid some data in image files.
Which of following techniques is Arnold using to pass the data outside of the company?
Insertion attack
HTTP tunneling
Steganography
Cryptography
Question 22
Michel works as a penetration tester in a firm named ITSecurity inc. Recently, Michel was given an assignment to test the security of the firewalls deployed by a client. While conducting the test, Michel found the company uses the OSI model for network communications. He also determined the firewall is only monitoring TCP handshaking of packets at the session layer to determine whether a requested session is legitimate.
Identify the type of firewall used by the company??
Stateful multilayer inspection firewall
Application level firewall
Packet filtering firewall
Circuit level gateway firewall
Question 23
Adam is a senior penetration tester at XYZsecurity Inc. He is auditing a wireless network for vulnerabilities.
Before starting the audit, he wants to ensure that the wireless card in his machine supports injection.
He decided to use the latest version of aircrack-ng tool.
Which of the following commands will help Adam check his wireless card for injection?
airodump-ng wlan0 �b wlan0
aireplay-ng -5
airdecap-ng -3 wlan0
aireplay-ng -9 wlan0
Question 24
Rebecca works as a Penetration Tester in a security service firm named Xsecurity. Rebecca placed a sniffer on a subnet residing deep inside the client's network. She used the Firewalk tool to test the security of the company's network firewall. After the test, when Rebecca checked the sniffer logs, she was unable to see any traffic produced by the Firewalk tool.
What is the reason for this?
She cannot see the traffic because Firewalk sets all packets with a TTL of zero.
Firewalk cannot pass through firewalls.
Network sniffers cannot detect firewalk so that is why none of the traffic appears.
Rebecca does not see any of the Firewalk traffic because it sets all packets with a TTL
of one.
Question 25
What is the purpose of a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card in a pen testing engagement?
It is a formal approval to start pen test engagement
It indemnifies the tester against any loss or damage that may result from the testing
It details standards and penalties imposed by federal, state, or local governments
It gives an understanding of the limitations, constraints, liabilities, and indemnification considerations
Question 26
Our local bank uses a firewall which monitors the internal network and filters the traffic the network team was hardening firewall rules over the weekend, they ignored a basic rule of making backups of the firewall configuration before beginning the work. The next day, users complained about a technical issue and unable to connect to some web sites. The network team troubleshooted the issue specifically to the SSL-based web sites. When a web page is opened on any of the SSL-based sites, there is a message “your session cannot be established”. The network engineer identified the issue was with the firewall.
What should be done to remediate the issue without losing any of the work?
Resetting the Firewall
Restoring the most recent backup of the firewall
Changing the firewall rule at the session layer
Restoring the default policy rule set
Question 27
Stuart has successfully cracked the WPA-PSK password during his wireless pen testing assignment.
However,he is unable to connect to the access point using this password.
What could be the probable reason?
The access point implement a signal jammer to protect from attackers
It is a rogue access point
The access point implements another layer of WEP encryption
The access point implements MAC filtering
Question 28
Jakob is working on a web application pen testing assignment. He uses Burp proxy to create a directory map of the target web app. During the audit he intercepted a GET request with the following as the Referrer parameter:
http://www.certifiedhacker.com/script.ext?orders=%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2f%65%74%63 %2f% 70%61%73%73%77%64
An analysis revealed that request is made up of:
%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2f = ../../../ %65%74%63 = etc %2f = / %70%61%73%73%77%64 = passwd
What should Jakob suggest to his client to protect from these attacks?
Configure the Web Server to deny requests involving ../
Create rules in IDS to alert on strange Unicode requests
Enable Active Scripts Detection at the firewall and routers
Use SSL authentication on Web Servers
Question 29
Analyze the screenshot below:
What the attacker is trying to achieve?
Stealing cookies using parameter tampering
Manipulating cookies using the CSRF attack
Manipulating cookies using XSS attack
Stealing cookies using XSS attack
Question 30
Jacob is performing a vulnerability assessment of the web resources in his organization. During the scanning phase, Jacob discovered a web server is running an FTP server. Jacob performed research on this FTP server and discovered it has a vulnerability enabling an attacker to perform directory traversal.
The next step is using directory traversal attacks on the webserver.
Which type of vulnerability assessment is Jacob performing?
Zero-day Assessment
Inference-based Assessment
Tree-based Assessment
Passive Assessment
Question 31
Stuart is a database penetration tester working with Regional Server Technologies. He was asked by the company to identify vulnerabilities in its SQL database. Stuart wanted to perform a SQL penetration by passing some SQL commands through a web application for execution and succeeded with a command using a wildcard attribute indicator.
Which of the following strings is a wildcard attribute indicator?
%
@variable
@@variable
?Param1=foo&Param2=bar
Question 32
While auditing a web application for vulnerabilities, Donald uses Burp proxy and modifies the get request as below:
http://www.juggyboy.com/GET/process.php./../../../../../../../../etc/passwd What Donald is trying to achieve?
Donald is trying to upload /etc/password file to the web server root folder
Donald is modifying process.php file to extract /etc/password file
Donald is trying SQL injection to extract the contents of /etc/password file
Donald is trying directory traversal to extract /etc/password file
Question 33
You are joining a new organization as a VAPT Manager. Your predecessor informs you that the 's Organization complete information security infrastructure is in the middle of a regular vulnerability management life cycle. He prioritized the vulnerabilities in the system and you have to start with patching these vulnerabilities first.
Which phase of vulnerability management is the information system in now?
Risk Assessment
Remediation
Vulnerability Assessment
Creating Baseline
Question 34
How does OS Fingerprinting help you as a pen tester?
It defines exactly what software the target has installed
It opens a security-delayed window based on the port being scanned 't depend on the patches that have been applied to fix existing security holes
It doesn
It helps to research vulnerabilities that you can use to exploit on a target system
Question 35
Which of the following tasks is done after submitting the final pen testing report?
Kick-off meeting
Exploiting vulnerabilities
System patching and hardening
Mission briefing
Question 36
Daniel is an ECSA certified penetration tester who is an expert at performing penetration tests for mobile devices. He is working on a project where he needs to pen test iPhone devices for a company. As part of the job, Daniel wants to intercept the traffic of the iPhone mobile devices using the Charles proxy tool. He installs the Charles proxy tool on a workstation and tries to configure the HTTP Proxy settings on a WiFi
network in the iPhone's settings. During the configuration, he needs to enter a port number on which Charles is running.
Which of the following port number values does he need to enter to continue the configuration?
8888
8080
8008
8088
Question 37
Frank is performing a wireless pen testing for an organization. Using different wireless attack techniques, he successfully cracked the WPA-PSK key. He is trying to connect to the wireless network using the WPA- PSK key. However, he is unable to connect to the WLAN as the target is using MAC filtering.
What would be the easiest way for Frank to circumvent this and connect to the WLAN?
Attempt to crack the WEP key
Sniff traffic off the WLAN and spoof his MAC address to the one that he has captured
Use deauth command from aircrack-ng to deauthenticate a connected user and hijack the session
Crack the Wi-Fi router login credentials and disable the ACL
Question 38
GenSec Inc, a UK-based Company, uses Oracle database to store all its data. The company also uses Oracle DataBase Vault to restrict user access to specific areas of their database. GenSec hired a senior penetration tester and security auditor named Victor to check the vulnerabilities of the company's Oracle DataBase Vault. He was asked to find all the possible vulnerabilities that can bypass the company's Oracle DB Vault. Victor tried different kinds of attacks to penetrate into the company's Oracle DB Vault and succeeded.
Which of the following attacks can help Victor to bypass GenSec's Oracle DB Vault?
Replay Attack
Man-in-the-Middle Attack
SQL Injection
Denial-of-Service Attack
Question 39
Which Oracle database listener mode provides network access to an Oracle database instance?
Database
PLSExtProc
Executable
Tnslnsr
Question 40
HDC Networks Ltd. is a leading security services company. Matthew works as a penetrating tester with this firm. He was asked to gather information about the target company. Matthew begins with social engineering by following the steps:
I. Secretly observes the target to gain critical information
Looks at employee's password or PIN code with the help of binoculars or a low-power telescope Based on the above description, identify the information gathering technique.
Phishing
Tailgating
Shoulder surfing
Dumpster diving
Question 41
ABC Bank, a UK-based bank hired Anthony, to perform a penetration test for the bank. Anthony began performing lookups on the bank's DNS servers, reading news articles online about the bank, performing competitive intelligence gathering, watching what times the bank employees come and go, and searching the bank's job postings.
What phase of the penetration testing is the Anthony currently in?
Pre-attack phase
Attack phase
Post-attack phase
Remediation phase
Question 42
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?
Look for information available in web page source code
Examine the session variables
Send an email message to a non-existing user of the target organization and check for bounced mail header
Examine TCP sequence numbers
Question 43
Paul is security analyst at Rex Security Consultation. The company asked him to investigate malicious activity in one of its client's network. Paul is trying to bypass the client's IDS. He sent some packets with an encoded attack payload in unicode to bypass IDS filters. He manipulated the path referenced in the signature to trick the IDS.
Which of the following techniques did Paul implement to penetrate through the client IDS?
Packet Overlapping
Obfuscation
Unicode Evasion
False-Positive Generation
Question 44
Nancy Jones is a network admin at Society Technology Ltd. When she is trying to send data packets from one network (Token-ring) to another network (Ethernet), she receives an error message stating: `Destination unreachable'
What is the reason behind this?
Packet contains image data
Packet fragmentation is required
Packet is lost
Packet transmission is not done properly
Question 45
Analyze the packet capture from Wireshark below and mark the correct statement.
It is an answer to the iterative query from Microsoft.com DNS server
It is an invalid DNS query
It is a DNS response message
It is Host ( A record ) DNS query message
Question 46
Martin works as a professional Ethical Hacker and Penetration Tester. He is an ECSA certified professional and was following the LPT methodology to perform the penetration testing. He is assigned a project for information gathering on a client's network. He started penetration testing and was trying to find out the company's internal URLs, (mostly by trial and error), looking for any information about the different departments and business units. Martin was unable find any information.
What should Martin do to get the information he needs?
Martin should use WayBackMachine in Archive.org to find the company's internal
URLs
Martin should use email tracking tools such as eMailTrackerPro to find the company's internal URLs
Martin should use website mirroring tools such as HTTrack Web Site Copier to find the company's internal URLs
Martin should use online services such as netcraft.com to find the company's internal
URLs
Question 47
Kevin is trying to pen test an Android mobile device. He wants to extract the PIN and gesture key from the device. Kevin knows that the gesture.key and password.key hold the information that he is looking for. He accesses the Android file system from an Android IDE but could not locate these files. Which of the following will allow Kevin to access these files and their content?
Rooting
Tethering
Jailbreaking
Debugging
Question 48
Karen was running port scans on each machine of her network in order to identify suspicious ports on the
target machines. She observed the following results during the port scan of a particular machine.
I. Some of the ports were not being acknowledged, i.e. no acknowledgement from the target machine
Some ports were responding with SYN + ACK packets III. Some ports were responding with a RST packet
What should she interpret for the ports that did not return the acknowledgment?
She should treat those ports as Closed ports
She should treat those ports as Open ports
She should treat those ports as Stealth ports
She should treat those ports as Half Open ports
Question 49
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 inconveniences. 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?
The users commands will be delayed and the information they requested may be not delivered.
The users will get more information than they desired.
A mischievous Internet user can cut off the request and send back incorrect information by spoofing the response.
The site becomes slow and vulnerable
Question 50
Three transition mechanisms are available to deploy IPv6 on IPv4 networks. Which of the following is not an IPv6 transition mechanism?
Dual Stacks
Tunneling
Translation
Positive Acknowledgement and Retransmission (PAR)
Question 51
Consider the following code:
URL:http://www.xsecurity.com/search.pl?text=< script >alert(document.cookie)< / script >
If an attacker tricks a victim into clicking a link like this, and the Web application does not validate the input, the victim's browser will pop up an alert showing the users current set of cookies. An attacker can do much more damage, including stealing passwords, resetting your home page, or redirecting the user to another Web site.
What is the countermeasure against XSS scripting?
Connect to the server using the HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP
Disable Javascript in the browsers
Replace "<" and ">" characters with ?lt;? and ?gt;?using server scripts
Create an IP access list and restrict connections based on port number
Question 52
Analyze the WSDL document below:
<?xml version="l.O encoding="U TF-S' standalone= ' no' ?>
<SOAP-ENV: Envelope )(mlns: SOAPSDK1="http://www.w3.org/2001/ XMLschema' xmlns: SOAPSDK2="http ://www .w3 .org/200 l/XMLSchem.o- inst.once" xmlns: SOAPSDK3="http://schemas
.xmlso.op .org/soap/ encoding/' xmlns: SOAPENV= ' http://schemas .xmlsoap .org/soap/ envelope/'>
<SOAP- ENV:Body>
<SOAPSDK 4: GetProdLJctInformationByName
xmlns: SOAPSDK4=' http://sfaustlap/ProductInfo/'>
<SOAPSDK4: name>' </SOAPSDK4: name>
<SOAPSDK4: uid>312 - 111 - 8543</SOAPSDK4: uid>
<SOAPSDK4: password> 5648</SOAPSDK4: password>
</SOAPSDK 4: GetProduct Information B y Name>
</SOAP-ENV: Body>
</SOAP-ENV: Envelope>
Thomas, a pen tester, enters a tick mark (`) for user name. What Thomas is trying to achieve?
The tick mark (`) will result in buffer overflow and crash the web service
The tick mark (`) will result in error and Jason can gather information about the web
service
The tick mark (`) will help Jason to extract the underlying database
The tick mark (`) will enable Jason to extract usernames of all the users using the web
service
Question 53
A hacker initiates so many invalid requests to a cloud network host that the host uses all its resources responding to the invalid requests and ignores the legitimate requests. Identify the type of attack
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
Side Channel attacks.
Man-in-the-middle cryptographic attacks
Authentication attacks.
Question 54
Which of the following SQLMAP commands will allow you to test if a parameter in a target URL is vulnerable to SQL injection (injectable)?
sqlmap -url [ Target URL ]
sqlmap -g "inurl:\".php?id=1\""
sqlmap -host [ Target URL ]
sqlmap.py -l burp.log --scope="(www)?\.[target]\.(com|net|org)"
Question 55
David is auditing the IDS systems deployed at one of his client organizations. During reconnaissance he realized the organization is using an outdated IDS system that does not reconstruct sessions before performing any pattern matching on the data. He then sends several data packets to the IDS with a time delay and is successful in keeping the session active longer than the IDS will spend on reassembling. With this the IDS stopped working and the packets David sent bypassed the IDS to reach the intended destination host.
Which of the following IDS evasion techniques was used?
Session Splicing
Fragmentation
Session Extension
Session Hijacking
Question 56
Kevin is auditing a cloud infrastructure for vulnerabilities. During the reconnaissance phase, he runs a
Nmap scan that gives him the following information:
Which of the following Metasploit commands will allow Kevin to decrypt the SSL traffic to the cloud? exploit
use exploit/scanner/ssl/openssl_heartbleed
exploit
use exploit/ssl/openssl_heartbleed
exploit
set payload/scanner/ssl/openssl_heartbleed
exploit
use auxiliary/scanner/ssl/openssl_heartbleed
Question 57
James is a security consultant at Big Frog Software Pvt Ltd. He is an expert in Footprinting and Social engineering tasks. His team lead tasked him to find details about the target through passive reconnaissance.
James used websites to check the link popularity of the client's domain name.
What information does the link popularity provide?
Information about visitors, their geolocations, etc.
Information about the server and its infrastructure
Information about the network resources
Information about the partners of the organization
Question 58
Martin is performing an internal pentest for one of his clients. The client has provided him with the necessary information. The scope of the test allows Martin to exploit the vulnerabilities discovered during the vulnerability scans. He is permitted to attempt attacks including Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Buffer Overflow.
How can you categorize the scope of this pentest?
Nondestructive black-box test
Destructive black-box test
Black-box test
Destructive test
Question 59
Richard is working on a web app pen testing assignment for one of his clients. After preliminary information, gathering and vulnerability scanning Richard runs the SQLMAP tool to extract the database information.
Which of the following commands will give Richard an output as shown in the screenshot?
sqlmap -url http://queenhotel.com/about.aspx?name=1 -D queenhotel --tables
sqlmap -url http://queenhotel.com/about.aspx?name=1 -dbs
sqlmap -url http://queenhotel.com/about.aspx?name=1 -database queenhotel -
tables
sqlmap -url http://queenhotel.com/about.aspx?name=1 -D queenhotel -T -columns
Question 60
Analyze the ARP packet below and mark the correct statement.
It is an ARP request packet from a broadcast address to the requesting host
It is a unicast ARP packet from responding host to the broadcast address
It is an ARP request packet from the requesting host to a broadcast address
It is a multicast ARP packet from a broadcast address to the other hosts in the network
Question 61
In Linux, the /etc/shadow file stores the real password in encrypted format for user accounts with added
properties associated with the user's password.
In the example of a /etc/shadow file entry below, what does the Bold Red string indicate?
Vivek: $1$fnffc$GteyHdicpGOfffXX40w#5:13064:0:99999:7
Last time the password changed
The number of days after which password must be changed
Number of days the user is warned before the expiration date
Minimum number of days required between password changes
Question 62
Alice is working a pentesting assignment. She succeeded in stealing a secure cookie via a XSS attack.
She isable to replay the cookie even while the session is valid on the server.
Why is possible?
It works because encryption is performed at the application layer (single encryption
key)
She passes the cookie through an HTTPS session
Any cookie can be replayed irrespective of the session status
The scenario is invalid as a secure cookie cannot be replayed
Question 63
Peter works as a lead penetration tester in a security service firm named Xsecurity. Recently, Peter was
assigned a white-box pen test assignment testing the security of an IDS system deployed by a client.
During the preliminary information gathering, Peter discovered the TTL to reach the IDS system from his end is 30. Peter created a Trojan and fragmented it in to 1-character packets using the Colasoft packet builder tool. He then used a packet flooding utility to bombard the IDS with these fragmented packets with the destination address of a target host behind the IDS whose TTL is 35.
What is Peter trying to achieve?
Peter is trying to bypass the IDS system using the insertion attack
Peter is trying to bypass the IDS system using inconsistent packets
Peter is trying to bypass the IDS system using the broadcast address
Peter is trying to bypass the IDS system using a Trojan
Question 64
During scanning of a test network, Paul sends TCP probe packets with the ACK flag set to a remote device and then analyzes the header information (TTL and WINDOW field) of the received RST packets to find whether the port is open or closed.
Analyze the scanning result below and identify the open port.
A real life response is show below:
packet 1: host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port 20: F:RST -> ttl: 70 win: 0 => closed
packet 2: host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port 21: F:RST -> ttl: 70 win: 0 => closed
packet 3: host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port 22: F:RST -> ttl: 40 win: 0 => open
packet 4: host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port 23: F:RST -> ttl: 70 win: 0 => closed
Port 20
Port 23
Port 21
Port 22
Question 65
You have implemented DNSSEC on your primary internal DNS server to protect it from various DNS attacks.
Network users complained they are not able to resolve domain names to IP addresses at certain times.
What could be the probable reason?
DNSSEC does not guarantee authenticity of a DNS response during an attack
DNSSEC does not provide protection against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
DNSSEC does not protect the integrity of a DNS response
DNSSEC does not guarantee the non-existence of a domain name or type
Question 66
Joe, an ECSA certified professional, is working on a pen testing engagement for one of his SME clients. He discovered the host file in one of the Windows machines has the following entry: 213.65.172.55 microsoft.com
After performing a Whois lookup, Joe discovered the IP does not refer to Microsoft.com. The network admin denied modifying the host files.
Which type of attack does this scenario present?
MAC spoofing
DNS starvation
Phishing
DNS poisoning
Question 67
Jack, a network engineer, is working on an IPv6 implementation for one of his clients. He deployed IPv6 on IPv4 networks using a mechanism where a node can choose from IPv6 or IPv4 based on the DNS value.This makes the network resources work simpler.
What kind of a technique did Jack use?
Tunneling
Dual stacks
Filtering
Translation
Question 68
Which port does DHCP use for client connections?
UDP port 66
UDP port 68
UDP port 69
UDP port 67
Question 69
Analyze the two TCP/IP packets below for a three-way handshake and identify the acknowledgement number in the next packet of the sequence.
12954
12953
2744081
2744082
Question 70
John, a penetration tester and security auditor, was hired by XSecurity Services. John was asked to perform a penetration test on the company's network. John discovers that a user from the HR department had a dial-out modem installed. John wanted to check the organization's security policies to see whether the dial-out modems are allowed or not.
Which of the following security policies should John check?
User account policy
Acceptable-use policy
Firewall-management policy
Remote-access policy
Question 71
Michael, a Licensed Penetration Tester, wants to create an exact replica of an original website, so he can browse and spend more time analyzing it.
Which of the following tools will Michael use to perform this task?
VisualRoute
BlackWidow
NetInspector
Zaproxy
Question 72
Smart Networks Ltd is an internet service provider based in the UK. The company hired Thomson as a penetration tester and asked him to check for vulnerabilities in one of their clients Wi-Fi networks. He performed Android Penetration Testing on the Wi-Fi network using the penetration testing tool. He found that the network is vulnerable and an attacker is able to gain access to some of the employees Android mobiles devices that are connected to the network.
Which of the following penetration testing tools did Thomson use to do this?
zANTI
evasion
Burp suite
Pangu
Question 73
Henderson has completed the pen testing tasks. He is now compiling the final report for the client. Henderson needs to include the result of scanning that revealed a SQL injection vulnerability and different SQL queries that he used to bypass web application authentication.
In which section of the pen testing report, should Henderson include this information in?
General opinion section
Executive summary section
Comprehensive technical report section
Methodology section
Question 74
Henderson is a certified ethical hacker working as an information security manager at Digital Essence Ltd. The
Henderson is a certified ethical hacker working as an information security manager at Digital Essence Ltd. The company uses Oracle (11g) database to store its data. As part of their database penetration testing, he wants to check whether the company's web applications are vulnerable to SQL injection attack or not. Henderson tried different SQL queries and discovered that it is vulnerable to SQL injection attack by observing error message.
Which of the following SQL injection query Henderson can use to extract all usernames from the company's database?
' or 1 = utl_inaddr.get_host_address((select banner from v$version where rownum=1))-
or 1=utl_inaddr.get_host_address((Select granted_role from ( select rownum r, granted_role from
user_role_privs) where r=1))
or 1=utl_inaddr.get_host_address((select banner from v$version where rownum=1))-
-
or 1=utl_inaddr.get_host_address((select sys.stragg (distinct username||chr(32)) from all_users))-
Question 75
Alice is a senior security auditor and pentester, specializing in social engineering and external penetration
tests. Alice has been hired by Xsecurity, a subcontractor for the Department of Defense. Alice has been given authority to perform all tests necessary to audit the company's network security. No employees for the company, other than the IT director, know about the work Alice is doing. Alice's first step is to obtain a list of employees through the company website contact pages. She then befriends a female employee of the company through an online chat website. After meeting with the female employee numerous times, Alice is able to gain her trust and they become friends. One day, Alice steals the employee's access badge and uses it to gain unauthorized access to the Xsecurity offices.
Identify the type of social engineering attack?
Insider Accomplice
Vishing
Eavesdropping
Spear phishing
Question 76
Which of the following snort rules alert all ICMP packets from the Internet to a local network?
alert icmp $EXTERNAL any -> $INTERNAL any 10.10.40.2 (msg:"ICMP-INFO PING"; icode:0; itype:8;
reference:arachnids,135; reference:cve,1999-0265; classtype:bad-unknown; sid:472;
rev:7;)
alert PORT1 $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET 10.10.40.2 (msg:"ICMP-INFO PING"; icode:0;
itype:8; reference:arachnids,135; reference:cve,1999-0265; classtype:bad-unknown; sid:472; rev:7;)
alert icmp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET 10.10.40.2 (msg:"ICMP-INFO PING"; icode:0; itype:8;
reference:arachnids,135; reference:cve,1999-0265; classtype:bad-unknown; sid:472;
rev:7;)
alert icmp $INTERNET any -> $HOME_NET 10.10.40.2 (msg:"ICMP-INFO PING"; icode:0; itype:8;
reference:arachnids,135; reference:cve,1999-0265; classtype:bad-unknown; sid:472;
rev:7;)
Question 77
Joseph is performing an internal pen test for one of his clients. He wants to crack the password for of the system login. Joseph has got a meterpreter session to the target machine and was able to successfully dump the password hashes.
Which of the following password attacks will Joseph perform so he discovers the clear text password without triggering the system lock out?
Rainbow attack
Phishing attack
Dictionary attack
Brute force attack
Question 78
Smith is performing a black-box test for one of his clients. He successfully gained a SSH shell and write access to the /tmp directory on a Unix web server. This directory did not have any sensitive information stored in it and was therefore not locked down. Smith, however, was able upload a .shtml web page containing the following include statement:
<!--- #exec cmd="/bin/cat /etc/passwd" --->
What Smith is trying to do?
Smith is trying to bruteforce password hashes stored in the machine
Smith is trying to escalate his privileges on the webserver machine
Smith is using Server Side Includes (SSI) to execute a malicious command on the
server
Smith is performing directory traversal to steal the /etc/passwd file from the webserver
Question 79
During a DHCP handshake in an IPv4 network, which of the following messages contains the actual IP addressing information for the clients to use?
SOLICIT
DHCPDISCOVER
DHCPACK
REPLY
Question 80
Lee has established a new startup where they develop android applications. In order to meet memory requirements of the company, Lee has hired a Cloud Service Provider, who offered memory space along with virtual systems. Lee was dissatisfied with their service and wanted to move to another CSP, but was denied as a part of the contract, which reads that the user cannot switch to another CSP.
What is this condition called?
Virtualization
Resource Isolation
Lock-in
Lock-up
Question 81
Steven is performing a wireless network audit. As part of the engagement, he is trying to crack a WPA- PSK key. Steven has captured enough packets to run aircrack-ng and discover the key, but aircrack-ng did not yield any result, as there were no authentication packets in the capture.
Which of the following commands should Steven use to generate authentication packets?
aircrack-ng.exe -a 2 -w capture.cap
airodump-ng --write capture eth0
airmon-ng start eth0
aireplay-ng --deauth 11 -a AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
Question 82
Arnold, is trying to gain access to a database by inserting exploited query statements with a WHERE clause. He wants to retrieve all the entries from a particular table (e.g. StudName) using the WHERE clause.
What query does Arnold need to write to retrieve the information? `
SELECT * FROM StudName WHERE roll_number = '' or '1' = '1'
DUMP * FROM StudName WHERE roll_number = 1 AND 1=1-
RETRIVE * FROM StudName WHERE roll_number = 1'#
EXTRACT* FROM StudName WHERE roll_number = 1 order by 1000
Question 83
Victor is performing a wireless network pen test. During a WEP test, he runs the following aircrack-ng command:
What Victor is trying to achieve by this command?
Victor is trying to perform a DoS attack by disassociating a client from the access
point
Victor is trying to dump all the Wi-Fi traffic from a client to the access point in order to capture weak IVs
Victor is trying to generate traffic so that he can generate enough packets to crack the WEP key
Victor is trying to associate his wireless card with the target access point
Question 84
Edward is a penetration tester hired by the OBC Group. He was asked to gather information on the 's Client network. As part of the work assigned, Edward needs to find the range of IP addresses and the subnet mask used by the target organization.
What does Edward need to do to get the required information?
Search for Trade Association Directories
Search for an appropriate Regional Internet Registry (RIR)
Search for web pages posting patterns and revision numbers 's website
Search for link popularity of the company
Question 85
You are working on a pen testing assignment. Your client has asked for a document that shows them the detailed progress of the pen testing.
Which document is the client asking for?
Scope of work (SOW) document
Rule of engagement with signatures of both the parties
Project plan with work breakdown structure
Engagement log
Question 86
Your firm has over 10 years of experience in pentesting and security auditing fields. The penetration testing team has a mix of qualified professionals from different domains. Your firm follows all the standard engagement processes, but still there could be incidents that may jeopardize your firms interests in a pentesting engagement.
Which of the following will be the best approach to protect your firm?
You should have a detailed ROE and well documented formal permission to start the engagement
You should get the confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) signed by the client
You should get the engagement letter vetted by your lawyer
You should obtain Liability and Errors and Omissions insurance
Question 87
Donald is auditing a SQL server machine for robustness. He performs parameter tampering using SQL scripts that results in the following query.
http://client.com/link.php?id=1' union select 1,2,(select tab1 from (select decode (encode(convert(compress(post) using latin1),des_encrypt(concat (post,post,post,post),8)),des_encrypt(sha1(concat(post,post,post,post)),9)) as tab1 from table_1)a),4-
What is Donald trying to achieve?
He is attempting a DoS Attack against the database server using SQL injection
He is trying to extract table names from the database server
He is trying to encrypt the complete database
He is trying to extract password hashes from the database
Question 88
Dale is a penetration tester and security expert. He works at Sam Morison Inc. based in Detroit. He was assigned to do an external penetration testing on one of its clients. Before digging into the work, we wanted to start with reconnaissance and grab some details about the organization. He used tools like Netcraft and SHODAN and grabbed the internal URLs of his client.
What information do the internal URLs provide?
Internal URLs provide an insight into various departments and business units in an organization
Internal URLs provide vulnerabilities of the organization
Internal URLs provide server related information
Internal URLs provide database related information
Question 89
Peter is working on a pen testing assignment. During the reconnaissance phase, Peter discovered that the client's SYSLOG systems are taken off for four hours on the second Saturday of every month for maintenance. He wants to analyze the client's web pages for sensitive information without triggering their logging mechanism. There are hundreds of pages on the client's website and it is difficult to analyze all the information in just four hours.
What will Peter do to analyze all the web pages in a stealthy manner?
Use WayBackMachine
Use HTTTrack to mirror the complete website
Perform reverse DNS lookup
Search the Internet, newsgroups, bulletin boards, and negative websites for information about the client
Question 90
Thomas, is trying to simulate a SQL injection attack on his client's website. He is trying various strings provided in the SQL Injection Cheat Sheet. All of his SQL injection attack attempts failed and he was unable to retrieve any information from the website's back-end database. Later, he discovered the IDS system deployed by his client is blocking all the SQL injection requests. Thomas decided to bypass the IDS by slightly modifying the SQL injection queries as below:
Original query:
/?id=1+union+(select+1,2+from+test.users)
Modified queries:
/?id=(1)unIon(selEct(1),mid(hash,1,32)from(test.users))
/?id=1+union+(sELect'1',concat(login,hash)from+test.users)
/?id=(1)union(((((((select(1),hex(hash)from(test.users))))))))
Which encoding techniques did he try to evade the IDS?
IDS evasion using in-line comments
IDS evasion using obfuscated code
IDS evasion using char encoding
IDS evasion using hex encoding
Question 91
Veronica, a penetration tester at a top MNC company, is trying to breach the company's database as a part of SLQi penetration testing. She began to use the SLQi techniques to test the database security level. She inserted new database commands into the SQL statement and appended a SQL Server EXECUTE command to the vulnerable SQL statements.
Which of the following SQLi techniques was used to attack the database?
File inclusion
Code injection
Buffer Overflow
Function call injection
Question 92
Joe works as an engagement team lead with Xsecurity Inc. His pentesting team follows all the standard
pentesting procedures, however, one of the team members inadvertently deletes a document containing the client's sensitive information. The client is suing Xsecurity for damages.
Which part of the Penetration Testing Contract should Joe have written better to avoid this lawsuit?
Non-disclosure clause
Fees and project schedule
Indemnification clause
Objective of the penetration test
Question 93
Mr. Smith works as a penetrating test engineer at Lucid Security Services. Mr. Shan, a frustrated customer, contacts the company and informs them that he identified some unusual behavior with his iPhone. After performing several tests, he concludes that the iPhone is Jail broken. Which permission status of the device root confirms that the device is jail broken?
Only Read permission
Only write permission
Read/ Write permission
Neither Read nor write permission
Question 94
Joseph, a penetration tester, was hired by Xsecurity Services. Joseph was asked to perform a pen test on a client's network. He was not provided with any information about the client organization except the company name.
Identify the type of testing Joseph is going to perform for the client organization?
White-box Penetration Testing
Announced Testing
Grey-box Penetration Testing
Black-box Penetration Testing
Question 95
Christine works as a network security auditor with Xsecurity, a large security assessment firm based out of San Francisco. During a security audit of a client organization, Christine tests some of the network switches for an ARP flooding attack. She tries to flood the ARP cache of the switches.
What happens when an ARP cache flood is successful?
The switches will start working as a proxy and route all traffic to the broadcast address.
The switches will drop into hub mode if the ARP cache is successfully flooded.
If the ARP cache is flooded, the switches will start working as a router, making it less susceptible to attacks.
Depending on the switch manufacturer, the device will either delete every entry in the ARP cache or reroute
packets to the nearest switch.
Question 96
Jack, a network administrator is using snort as an additional layer of intrusion detection. He is running the following command:
Snort -dev -I 1
What is Jack trying to achieve?
Jack is checking the logging mechanism of snort
Jack is running snort in sniffer mode
Jack is running snort in IDS mode
Jack is working with snort in developer mode
Question 97
Sarah is a pen tester at JK Hopes & Sons based in Las Vegas. As a part of the penetration testing, she was asked to perform the test without exposing the test to anyone else in the organization. Only a few people in the organization know about the test. This test covers the organization's security monitoring, incident identification and its response procedures.
What kind of pen testing is Sarah performing?
Blind Testing
Unannounced Testing
Double-blind Testing
Announced Testing
Question 98
As part of his job role as a Network administrator of a multi-national company, Steve needs to perform 's BYOD policy. He chooses the proxy tools penetration tests of mobile devices used under the company Fiddler and Paros to perform penetration testing.
Which part of the mobile penetration testing methodology has he taken up?
Server-side infrastructure pen testing
Android debug bridge testing
Communication channel penetration testing
Application penetration testing
Question 99
An attacker has inserted 'Integrated Security = true;' to the end of the string in the hopes of connecting to the database using the OS account the web application is running to avoid normal authentication:
Data source = mySource; Initial Catalog = db1; Integrated Security = no; user id = myName; ; Password = 123; Integrated Security = true;
What is attacker trying to do?
The attacker is checking the web application for XSRF attack
The attacker is performing Connection Pool DoS attack
The attacker is performing Connection String Parameter Pollution (CSPP) attack
The attacker is performing Connection String Injection attack
Question 100
Alisa is a Network Security Manager at Adios Cyber Security. During a regular network audit, she sent specially crafted ICMP packet fragments with different offset values into the network, causing a system crash.
Which attack is Alisa trying to perform?
Smurf attack
Ping-of-death attack
Session hijacking
Fraggle attack
Question 101
Todd is working on an assignment involving auditing of a web service. The scanning phase reveals the web service is using an Oracle database server at the backend. He wants to check the TNS Listener configuration file for configuration errors.
Which of following directory contains the TNS Listener configuration file, by default:
$ORACLE_HOME/network /admin
$ORACLE_HOME/network /bin
$ORACLE_HOME/bin
$ORACLE_HOME/network
Question 102
In a 3-way handshake process before TCP communication, host A sends a SYN packet to host B with a sequence number 4444. Host B replies to the SYN packet with a SYN+ACK packet.
What will be the sequence number of the SYN+ACK packet?
4443
4445
The sequence number of the SYN+ACK packet is independent of the sequence number of the SYN packet,and cannot be deduced from the above information
4444
Question 103
The security team found the network switch has changed its behavior to learning mode and is functioning like a hub. The CAM table of the switch was filled with unnecessary traffic. Someone tried to penetrate into the network space by attacking the network switches. They wrote a report and submitted to higher authorities.
What kind of an attack did the attackers perform against the network switch?
MAC Flooding
DNS Poisoning
ARP Poisoning
MITM Attack
Question 104
Analyze the hping3 output below and mark the correct statement.
The result shows that beta.search.microsoft.com is handled by two machines behind a load balancer
The result shows that beta.search.microsoft.com is intermittently unavailable
The result shows that beta.search.microsoft.com webserver is behind two firewalls
The result shows that beta.search.microsoft.com is not available for public access
Question 105
Sam is auditing a web application for SQL injection vulnerabilities. During the testing, Sam discovered that the web application is vulnerable to SQL injection. He starts fuzzing the search field in the web application with UNION based SQL queries, however, he realized that the underlying WAF is blocking the requests. To avoid this, Sam is trying the following query:
UNION/**/SELECT/**/ '/**/OR/**/1/**/=/**/1
Which of the following evasion technique is Sam using?
Sam is using inline comments to bypass WAF
Sam is manipulating white spaces to bypass WAF
Sam is using obfuscated code to bypass WAF
Sam is using char encoding to bypass WAF
Question 106
Gary has built an application that can help users transfer files between any two applications present on the mobile device or to another mobile device. This application uses the principle of application to application communication for information exchange.
Which of the following processes is the application dependent on?
Binaries
Intents
Fuzzers
Debug bridges
Question 107
You are working on a pentesting assignment for National Healthcare Inc. The client has specifically asked you for a Data Use Agreement (DUA).
What does it indicate?
You are working on a target that is not connected to the Internet
The client organization does not want you to exploit vulnerabilities
You are working with a publicly traded organization
You are working with a HIPPA compliant organization
Question 108
Watson is a security analyst specialized in mobile penetration testing who works at Regional Secure Inc. The company's senior management asked him to check the company's mobile communication network for vulnerabilities. He performed a penetration test and determined that the network is vulnerable to MITM attacks.
Which of the following mobile penetration tests did Watson execute to determine the attack?
Application Penetration Testing
Server-side Infrastructure Pen Testing
Android debug bridge Testing
Communication Channel Penetration Testing
Question 109
The Rhythm Networks Pvt Ltd firm is a group of ethical hackers. Rhythm Networks was asked by their client Zombie to identify how the attacker penetrated their firewall. Rhythm discovered the attacker modified the addressing information of the IP packet header and the source address bits field to bypass the firewall.
What type of firewall bypassing technique was used by the attacker?
Proxy Server
Source routing
HTTP Tunneling
Anonymous Website Surfing Sites
Question 110
JUA Networking Solutions is a group of certified ethical hacking professionals with a large client base. Stanley works as a penetrating tester at this firm. Future Group approached JUA for an internal pen test. Stanley performs various penetrating testing test sequences and gains information about the network resources and shares, routing tables, audit and service settings, SNMP and DNS details, machine names, users and groups, applications and banners.
Identify the technique that gave Stanley this information.
Enumeration
Port scanning
Sniffing
Ping sweeps
Question 111
Recently, Jakob was assigned a project to test the perimeter security of one of a client. As part of the project,Jakob wants to test whether or not a particular port on the firewall is open or closed. He used the hping utility with the following syntax:
#hping -S -c 1 -p <port> <IP Address> -t <TTL>
What response will indicate the particular port is allowed in the firewall?
TTL Exceeded
No Response
ICMP Port Unreachable
Host Unreachable
Question 112
Frank is a senior security analyst at Roger Data Systems Inc. The company asked him to perform a database penetration test on its client network to determine whether the database is vulnerable to attacks or not.
The client did not reveal any information about the database they are using. As a pen tester Frank knows that each database runs on its own default port. So he started database port scanning using the Nmap tool and tried different commands using default port numbers and succeeded with the following command.
nmap -sU -p 1521 <client ip-address>
Identify the database used by the company?
SQLite
Oracle
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server
Question 113
WallSec Inc. has faced several network security issues in the past and hired Williamson, a professional pentester, to audit its information systems. Before starting his work, Williamson, with the help of his legal advisor, signed an agreement with his client. This agreement states that confidential information of the client should not be revealed outside of the engagement.
What is the name of the agreement that Williamson and his client signed?
TPOC agreement
Non-disclosure agreement
Authorization
Engagement letter
Question 114
Xsecurity Inc., has developed a web service program and wants to host it on its web server. However, before deploying the web service, management asked their security team to assess the security of the web service against possible service attacks. George is working as the lead penetration tester on this assignment. To simulate a specific type of attack on the web service, he performed the following activities:
I. Trapped the WSDL document from web service traffic and analyzed it in order to determine whether it is
revealing the purpose of the application, entry points, functional breakdown, and message types on
web
service.
II. Created a set of valid requests by selecting a set of operations, and
formulated the request messages according to the rules of the XML Schema that can be submitted to
the web
service
He then used these new requests to include malicious content in SOAP requests and analyzed any errors
What is he trying to do?
He is assessing the web service security against a Web Services Replay Attack
He is assessing the web service security against XPath Injection Attacks
He is assessing the web service security against a MITM Attack
He is assessing the web service security against Web Services Probing Attacks
Question 115
Why is an appliance-based firewall more secure than those implemented on top of a commercial operating system (Software based)?
Appliance based firewalls cannot be upgraded
Operating system firewalls are highly configured
Firewalls implemented on a hardware firewall are highly scalable
Hardware appliances do not suffer from security vulnerabilities associated with the underlying operating system
Question 116
Which of the following pre-engagement documents identifies the systems to be tested, types of tests, and the depth of the testing?
Letter of Intent
Draft Report
Authorization Letter
Rule of Engagement
Question 117
Ashton is a mobile penetration tester and runs a mobile investigation firm. A company hired him to check the security of the various mobile devices used in their office. As part of the contract, Ashton needs to perform penetration testing on the communication channel of the devices.
Which of the following steps does Ashton need to perform to complete the task?
Performing Penetration test of Web server/application
Reverse engineering the applications
Intercepting HTTP request
Reading stored data
Question 118
George, a freelance Security Auditor and Penetration Tester, was working on a pen testing assignment for Xsecurity. George is an ECSA certified professional and was following the LPT methodology in performing a comprehensive security assessment of the company. After the initial reconnaissance, scanning and enumeration phases, he successfully recovered a user password and was able to log on to a Linux machine located on the network. He was also able to access the /etc/passwd file; however, the passwords were stored as a single "x" character.
What will George do to recover the actual encrypted passwords?
George will escalate his privilege to root level and look for /etc/shadow file
George will perform a password attack using the pre-computed hashes also known as a rainbow attack
George will perform replay attack to collect the actual passwords
George will perform sniffing to capture the actual passwords
Question 119
Which of the following statements highlights the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test?
A vulnerability assessment is performed only on software components of an information system, whereas
pentesting is performed on all hardware and software components of the system.
A vulnerability assessment focuses on low severity vulnerabilities and pentesting focuses on high severity
vulnerabilities
A vulnerability assessment requires only automated tools to discover the vulnerabilities whereas pentesting
also involves manual discovery of vulnerabilities.
A vulnerability assessment identifies and ranks the vulnerabilities, and a penetration test exploits the identified vulnerabilities for validation and to determine impact.
Question 120
You have just completed a database security audit and writing the draft pen testing report. Which of
the following will you include in the recommendation section to enhance the security of the
database
server?
Allow direct catalog updates
Grant permissions to the public database role
Install SQL Server on a domain controller
Install a certificate to enable SSL connections
Question 121
Edward, a network administrator, was worried about a report of one employee using an FTP site to send
confidential data out of the office. Edward intends to confront the suspect employee with evidence he using FTP against the company's security policies. Edward sniffs the network traffic using the Wireshark tool.
Which Wireshark filter will display all the FTP packets originating from the suspect employee's machine?
tcp.port eq 23 || ip.src==192.168.0.4
ftp&&ip.src==192.168.0.4
proto==ftp&&ip.src==192.168.0.4
tcp contains ftp&&23
Question 122
George, a reputed ethical hacker and penetration testing consultant, was hired by FNB Services, a startup financial services company, to audit the security of their web applications. During his investigation, George discovered that the company's website is vulnerable to blind SQL injection attacks. George, entered a custom SQL query in a form located on the vulnerable page which resulted in a back-end SQL query similar to the one given below:
http://fnb.com/ forms/?id=1+AND+555=if(ord(mid((select+pass from+users+limit+0,1),1,2))= 97,555,777)
George is searching for the first character of the second table entry
George is searching for the second character of the first table entry
George is searching for the first character of the first table entry
George is searching for the first character of all the table entries
Question 123
What is the purpose of the Traceroute command?
For extracting information about opened ports
For extracting information about closed ports
For extracting information about the server functioning
For extracting information about the network topology, trusted routers, and firewall locations
Question 124
Dale is a network admin working in Zero Faults Inc. Recently the company's network was compromised and is experiencing very unusual traffic. Dale checks for the problem that compromised the network. He performed a penetration test on the network's IDS and identified that an attacker sent spoofed packets to a broadcast address in the network.
Which of the following attacks compromised the network?
MAC Spoofing
Session hijacking
Amplification attack
ARP Spoofing
Question 125
A firm named SYS networks suffers from a wireless attack. They hired Mr. Shaw, a wireless penetration test engineer to rectify the problem. Mr. Shaw proceeds with the standard steps of wireless penetrating testing. He was trying to crack static WEP keys, where he first monitors the wireless traffic with airmon-ng tool and then tries to collect the wireless traffic data using airodump-ng.
Which of the following airodump-ng commands will help him do this?
C:\>airodump-ng -c 11 wlan0
C:\>aircrack-ng -s capture.ivs
C:\>airodump-ng --ivs --write capture eth1
C:\>airodump-ng -d 11 wlan0
Question 126
A company asked Smith to perform a penetration on its subsidiary network to find vulnerabilities. Smith
focused the penetration test on any vulnerabilities to exploit the company's IDS.
He used the following command to trick the IDS and successfully bypassed the IDS to the network:
HEAD /cgi-bin/some.cgi
Which one of the following techniques did Smith use to identify the vulnerability?
Reverse Traversal
Method Matching
Signature Matching
Pattern Matching
Question 127
WinSoftech hired Steven a penetration tester to check if the company's SQL database is vulnerable to attacks or not. He performed a penetration test on the company's database by appending an additional SQL query after escaping the original query and found the database is vulnerable to SQL injection.
Which of the following SQL injection techniques is performed by Steven?
Tautological injection
Batch Query injection
Union Query Injection
Command Injection
Question 128
You work as a penetration tester for XSecCorp, a large security assessment firm based out of Atlanta. You have been assigned a project to test the strength of the IDS system deployed at a client's internal network. You run the Wireshark tool and observe a large number of SYN/ACK packets originating from an internal host and hitting a web server, but, surprisingly, you could not find any SYN requests from the web server to the host.
What will be the most likely reason for this?
The NIC card at the web server is running in promiscuous mode
The SYN/ACK traffic is false positive alerts generated by the IDS
The TCP implementation is vulnerable to a resource-exhaustion attack
The web server is experiencing a backscatter attack
Question 129
A month ago, Jason, a software developer at a reputed IT firm was surfing through his company's website. He was visiting random pages of the company's website and came to find confidential information about the company was posted on one of the web pages. Jason forgot to report the issue. Jason contacted John another member of the Security Team and discussed the issue. John visited the page but found nothing wrong.
What should John do to see past versions and pages of a website that Jason saw one month back?
John should recover cached pages of the website from Google search engine cache
John should run the Web Data Extractor tool to recover the old data
John can go to Archive.org to see past versions of the company website
John should use SmartWhois to recover the old pages of the website
Question 130
Which type of security policy is described by the configuration below:
Provides maximum security while allowing known, but necessary, dangers All services are blocked; nothing is allowed
Safe and necessary services are enabled individually
Non-essential services and procedures that cannot be made safe are NOT allowed
Everything is logged
Promiscuous Policy
Paranoid Policy
Permissive Policy
Prudent Policy
Question 131
Xsecurity Inc. is worried about the latest security incidents and data theft reports. The management wants a comprehensive vulnerability assessment of the complete information system at the company. However, Xsecurity does not have the required resources or capabilities to perform a vulnerability assessment.
They decide to hire services of a company that will perform a periodic vulnerability assessment and present reports for management to implement remediation.
What vulnerability assessment approach is Xsecurity following?
Tree-based Assessment
Inference-based Assessment
Product-based Assessment
Service-based Assessment
Question 132
A reputed ethical hacker and penetration testing consultant, was hired by Global Finance Services, to audit the security of their web applications. Sam is currently auditing the coding and logical issues that might be affecting the company's web applications. In the first step, he collected valid session ID values by sniffing traffic from authenticated users. By looking at the different requests, Sam realized the web application is using a weak session ID generation mechanism and session IDs can be guessed easily.
Analyze some of the requests sniffed by Sam below:
http://www.juggyboy.com/view/JBEX2109201412
http://www.juggyboy.com/view/JBEX2109201424
http://www.juggyboy.com/view/JBEX2109201436
http://www.juggyboy.com/view/JBEX2109201448
Considering that the above sessions are generated by the web server in the same order, which of the following will be the next session generated by the server?
http://www.juggyboy.com/view/JBEX2109201460
http://www.juggyboy.com/view/JBEX2408201484
http://www.juggyboy.com/view/JBEX2009201472
http://www.juggyboy.com/view/JBEX2509201496
Question 133
Mike, a security auditor, was asked to assess the network perimeter security deployed in the company's
network. As a part of his assignment, he created a malicious file of 300 KB and used the Colasoft Packet
Builder tool to manipulate its header information to show the size of the packet data as 50 kB. He then sent the crafted packet to a target host inside the network.
What is Mike trying to achieve?
Bypass the sanity check at the IDS using packet fragmentation technique
Bypass the sanity check at the IDS using insertion technique
Bypass the sanity check at the IDS using resource exhaustion technique
Bypass the sanity check at the IDS by ending inconsistent packets
Question 134
ABC Technologies, a large financial company, hired a penetration tester to do physical penetration testing. On the first day of his assessment, the penetration tester goes to the company posing as a repairman and starts checking trash bins to collect the sensitive information.
What is the penetration tester trying to do?
Trying to attempt social engineering by dumpster diving
Trying to attempt social Engineering using phishing
Trying to attempt social engineering by shoulder surfing
Trying to attempt social engineering by eavesdropping
Question 135
Which of the following Wireshark options will allow you to view a HTTP packet in plain text as shown in the screenshot?
Follow TCP Stream
Follow UDP Stream
Follow HTTP Stream
Follow SSL Stream
Question 136
Jacob, a compliance officer with a top MNC based out of Florida, has received reports that a competitor of the company has used and branded some of its copyrighted software application codes. He wants to pursue a case against the competitor.
Which of the following laws will Jacob specifically invoke in this case?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX)
Question 137
A company has asked a security professional, William to analyze one of its client's networks, which was
apparently compromised recently. William performed a penetration test to identify the vulnerability which
allowed the attack. He used a buffer overflow exploit to carry some hidden malicious code in encrypted format bypassing the IDS and compromised the network.
Which of the following techniques did William use to bypass the IDS and penetrate through the network?
Unicode Evasion
Polymorphic Shellcode
Ping Flooding
Signature Encoding
Question 138
AB Cloud services provide virtual platform services for the users in addition to storage. The company offers users with APIs, core connectivity and delivery, abstraction and hardware as part of the service.
What is the name of the service AB Cloud services offer?
Web Application Services
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Platform as a service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Question 139
Mobile Silicon Securities Ltd specializes in providing security services for mobile platforms. A client named Riya raised an issue, stating that her iPhone has been hacked. This issue was handed over to the company's mobile penetrating test engineer, Jackson. He conducted a reverse engineering test on iOS application and determined that Objective-C runtime information stored in Mach-O files was corrupted.
Which of the following command line utility did Jackson use to identify the issue?
class dump utility
IDA disassembler
Keychain
ipash ME
Question 140
As a part of the pentesting process, James performs a FIN scan as given below:
Scan directed at open port:
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Client Server
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192.5.2.92:4079 -----
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FIN-----
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>192.5.2.110:23
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192.5.2.92:4079 <----
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____________
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------192.5.2.110:23
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Scan directed at closed port:
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Client Server
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192.5.2.92:4079 -----
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FIN-----
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>192.5.2.110:23
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192.5.2.92:4079<-----
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RST/ACK----------
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192.5.2.110:23
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What will be the response if the port is open?
FIN/RST
RST
FIN/ACK
No response
Question 141
During the reconnaissance phase of a penetration test, you discovered that the client has deployed a firewall that only checks the TCP header information.
Which of the following techniques would you use to bypass the firewall?
Bypassing the firewall using the IP address in place of an URL
Bypassing the firewall source routing
Bypassing the firewall by manipulating the IPID sequence number
Bypassing the firewall using tiny fragments
Question 142
Sandra, a wireless network auditor, discovered her client is using WEP. To prove the point that the WEP encryption is very weak, she wants to decrypt some WEP packets. She successfully captured the WEP data packets, but could not read the content as the data is encrypted.
Which of the following will help Sandra decrypt the data packets without knowing the key?
Chopchop Attack
ARP Poisoning Attack
Packet injection attack
Fragmentation Attack
Question 143
You are enumerating a target system. Which of the following PortQry commands will give a result similar to the screenshot below:
portqry -n myserver -p udp -e 123
portqry -n myserver -p TCP -e 389
portqry -n myserver -p udp -e 389
portqry -n myserver -p TCP -e 123
Question 144
Henderson is a certified ethical hacker working as an information security manager at Digital Essence Ltd. The company uses Oracle (11g) database to store its data. As part of their database penetration testing, he wants to check whether the company's web applications are vulnerable to SQL injection attack or not. Henderson tried different SQL queries and discovered that it is vulnerable to SQL injection attack by observing error message.
Which of the following SQL injection query Henderson can use to extract all usernames from the company's database?
' or 1 = utl_inaddr.get_host_address((select banner from v$version where rownum=1))-
or 1=utl_inaddr.get_host_address((Select granted_role from ( select rownum r, granted_role from
user_role_privs) where r=1))
or 1=utl_inaddr.get_host_address((select banner from v$version where rownum=1))-
-
or 1=utl_inaddr.get_host_address((select sys.stragg (distinct username||chr(32)) from all_users))-
Question 145
Henderson has completed the pen testing tasks. He is now compiling the final report for the client. Henderson needs to include the result of scanning that revealed a SQL injection vulnerability and different SQL queries that he used to bypass web application authentication.
In which section of the pen testing report, should Henderson include this information in?
General opinion section
Executive summary section
Comprehensive technical report section
Methodology section
Question 146
Michael, a Licensed Penetration Tester, wants to create an exact replica of an original website, so he can browse and spend more time analyzing it.
Which of the following tools will Michael use to perform this task?
VisualRoute
BlackWidow
NetInspector
Zaproxy
Question 147
Rebecca, a security analyst, was auditing the network in her organization. During the scan, she found a service running on a remote host, which helped her to enumerate information related to user accounts, network interfaces, network routing and TCP connections. Which among the following services allowed Rebecca to enumerate the information?
NTP
SMPT
SMB
SNMP
Question 148
What is the objective of the following bash script?
It tries to connect to FTP port on a target machine
It checks if a target host has the FTP port open and quits
It gives a list of IP addresses that have an FTP port open
It checks if an FTP port on a target machine is vulnerable to attacks
Question 149
Shane, a network security auditor, was asked to pen-test a Windows server hosting a website. While examining the server, he found a vulnerable application running on it and performed exploitation using
Metasploit to gain privileged access to the server. Once he attained a meterpreter shell, he tried to dump the hashes of the user accounts. Which among the following commands would allow Shane to dump the hashes?
run post/windows/collect/hashdump
run post/windows/gather/hashdump
run post/windows/manage/hashdump
run post/windows/capture/hashdump
Question 150
Xsecurty, a security firm, implements NFS sharing within the organization. One day, Philip, a network admin, found that some of the shared files containing sensitive information were missing from
the file system. He immediately called up the organization’s InfoSec expert James and explained him the
same. Upon investigation, James checked the access control list of the shared file systems and found that one among the following options was enabled, which let someone who had access to the file system to delete the files. Select the option.
no_root_squash
root_squash
no_subtree_check
subtree_check
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