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Information Gathering and Vulnerability Scanning Flashcards

1
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What is the process of collecting as much information as you can about a target?

A

Reconnaissance

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When do pentesters typically conduct reconnaissance?

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During the planning, initial access, and post-exploitation phases of pentesting.

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What is the process of assessing a target to collect preliminary knowledge about it without actively engaging it or its assets?

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Passive reconnaissance

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Which information gathering technique involves expanding your knowledge of hostnames in use, breadth of network, and even information about some technical contacts within an organization?

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DNS Recon

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What can you use to validate ownership of an IP address in your scope list?

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The regional internet registry (RIR) like ARIN (for America)

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What are some command-line tools you can use to access information from DNS?

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Commands such as dig or whois.

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What tool can you use to resolve the name of a domain to an IP address?

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nslookup

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Which open-source Python framework is often included in Kali and is a powerful tool with independent modules and a database for storing engagement information during recons?

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Recon-ng

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Which Python-based framework is useful for DNS recon, can be both active and passive, and can help gather information from webpages to discover domains, subdomains, and email addresses?

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theHarvester

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What is an open-source framework that pentesters can use to aid in data mining process? It is a static web page focused on information gathering and provides web links and resources.

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OSINT Framework

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What is an interactive data mining software tool that can help users visualize and analyze relationships using publicly accessible data from the Internet?

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Maltego

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What is an automated discovery process that can help identify metadata and property information stored in the file info of Microsoft Products?

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FOCA (Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives)

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What is the name for queries you can use to find data about your targets?

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Dorks

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What is an open-source repository where people can share source codes and collaborate with others?

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GitHub

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Which tool was created by the University Of Michigan in 2015 and allows you to query host and certificate information from Internet-wide scans using full-text searches or field-base searches with regex and logic operators enriching your queries?

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Censys

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Which search engine scans the entire Internet, parsing banners for services and categorizing the data returned by each device?

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Shodan

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What is defined by actively engaging a target to detect open ports, web pages, services, and exploitable weaknesses?

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Active reconnaissance

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What is the command-line tool that utilizes various network protocols and advanced features for surveying hosts for open TCP and UDP ports, fingerprinting operating systems, extracting service banners, and much more?

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NMAP

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What is a simple method of determining if a host is alive on a network?

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A ping scan

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What kind of scan can you run on a local network to perform host discovery using MAC addresses?

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An ARP scan, like arp -a

21
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What type of port scan provides little reliability as to whether a port is available over a network?

A

UDP Scan

22
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What are the three states of a port, as returned by a port scan?

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Open, Closed, Filtered

23
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Which ports range from 0 - 1023, require root/system-level privileges with the OS, and host standardized application services across operating system platforms?

A

System ports

24
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Which ports range from 1024 - 49151, are user-level, and host applications that do not require elevated privileges to run?

A

Registered ports

25
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Which protocol is connection-oriented and offers reliable data exchange between two network hosts?

A

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

26
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What is key about a TCP “half-open” scan?

A

It never completes the three-way handshake in the SYN process

27
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What kind of attack harnesses half-open scans as a form of denial of service?

A

SYN flood

28
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What is the extended framework in Nmap written in Lua to help automate a variety of networking tasks, including the ability to write scripts to tinker with and finagle network services?

A

Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE)

29
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What is the most basic way to identify a web server?

A

Look at the Server field in the HTTP response headed.

30
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What is on eof the most useful and underrated tools available to open a TCP connection to a remote host, to include a database server?

A

netcat

31
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What is the process of ingesting a web page and following all of the links on that page, and sublinks, and so on?

A

Crawling

32
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What is the process of looking at the content of a known web page to gather terms and information from the site for analysis?

A

Scraping

33
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What is a Java-based framework that can be used to find other pages that may not be directly linked on a webpage that you are crawling?

A

DirBuster

34
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Which file is found at the top-level directory of a host and is used to restrict web indexing capabilities from web crawlers like Google or Bing?

A

robots.txt

35
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What are the three types of APIs (Application Programming Interface)?

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Local, Web, and Program

36
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What kind of security devices are designed to intercept web requests and block common attack patterns?

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Web application firewalls (WAFs)

37
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Which kind of web load balancer takes traffic requests and sends them to a pool of systems, one at a time?

A

Round-robin

38
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Which kind of web load balancer frequently generates and stores some form of session variable and uses that to determine the target system for a given session?

A

Persistent, and is more likely to be abused

39
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What is the process of inspecting an information system for known security weaknesses?

A

Vulnerability scanning

40
Q

Which remote vulnerability scanning tool helps automate vulnerability scanning and is one of the most popular commercial products on the market?

A

Tenable Nessus

41
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Which organization provides best-practice security configuration baselines that can be used to apply configuration guidance to safeguard operating systems, software, and networks?

A

Center for Internet Security (CIS)

42
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Which standard defines vulnerabilities as “a weakness in computational logic found in software and hardware components that, when exploited, results in a negative impact to CIA”?

A

Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE)

43
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What is the de facto standard for documenting publicly disclosed vulnerabilities?

A

The CVE Dictionary

44
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Which organization maintains the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)?

A

NIST

45
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Which database documents analysis on vulnerabilities that have been published in the CVE dictionary, using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)?

A

National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

46
Q

Which calculator is a comprehensive tool that uses qualitative factors within an equation to severity ratings, given certain environmental conditions?

A

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

47
Q

Nessus plugins are written in which type of proprietary language?

A

Nessus Attack Scripting Language (NASL)

48
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Which Nmap script could you use to enumerate popular web directories from the service hosted on port 80?

A

http-enum

Pentest+ PT0-002 (9 decks)

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