QUESTION: 105 Topic: 2, Volume B

A Trojan horse is a destructive program that masquerades as a benign application. The software initially appears to perform a desirable function for the user prior to installation and/or execution, but in addition to the expected function steals information or harms the system.

The challenge for an attacker is to send a convincing file attachment to the victim, which gets easily executed on the victim machine without raising any suspicion. Today's end users are quite knowledgeable about malwares and viruses. Instead of sending games and fun executables, Hackers today are quite successful in spreading the Trojans using Rogue security software.
What is Rogue security software?

A flash file extension to Firefox that gets automatically installed when a victim visits rogue software disabling websites
A Fake AV program that claims to rid a computer of malware, but instead installs spyware or other malware onto the computer. This kind of software is known as rogue security software.
Rogue security software is based on social engineering technique in which the attackers lures victim to visit spear phishing websites
This software disables firewalls and establishes reverse connecting tunnel between the victim's machine and that of the attacker

Answer(s): B

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QUESTION: 106 Topic: 2, Volume B

Which of the following is NOT part of CEH Scanning Methodology?

Check for Live systems
Check for Open Ports
Banner Grabbing
Prepare Proxies
Social Engineering attacks
Scan for Vulnerabilities
Draw Network Diagrams

Answer(s): E

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QUESTION: 107 Topic: 2, Volume B

Lee is using Wireshark to log traffic on his network. He notices a number of packets being directed to an internal IP from an outside IP where the packets are ICMP and their size is around 65, 536 bytes. What is Lee seeing here?

Lee is seeing activity indicative of a Smurf attack.
Most likely, the ICMP packets are being sent in this manner to attempt IP spoofing.
Lee is seeing a Ping of death attack.
This is not unusual traffic, ICMP packets can be of any size.

Answer(s): C

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