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CISSP Attacks
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1. Counter: Non-public #s - Tight AC for modems / pools
Wardialing
Shellcode
E-mail address spoofing
Jamming
2. Zeus - Mariposa - Storm
Bluetooth Malicious Threats
Web Spoofing Attack
Botnet Names
Slamming
3. Type: Brute force How: Attack hashing function via Brute force. Changes message until he gets one that produces the same hash value. - Why: Attacker wants to change your message without detection.
ARP Table Poisioning
Time of Use/Time of Check Attack
Tap
Birthday
4. AKA Session Hijacking - Enables user to gain control of session read change data and/or packets. Could potentially get passwords or Paswd file if attacks admin
Hijacking Tools
Network Address Hijacking
S-RPC
Tap
5. Completed by using commercially available couplers to place a microbend in the cable to allow light to radiate through the cladding and be exposed to a photodetector. photodetector is connected to an electro-optical converter that acts as an interfac
Bluesnarfing
Caller ID Spoofing
Web Spoofing Attack
Tap
6. Type: DDoS - How: TFN uses a master program to communicate with attack agents across multiple nets. TFN can launch several types of attacks simultaneously: UDP flood - TCP SYN flood - ICPM echo request flood and ICMP directed broadcasts. - Why: TFN M
Tap
Tribal Flood Network (TFN) & TFN2K
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
Birthday
7. TDL-4's makers created their own encryption algorithm - Kaspersky's Golovanov said in his analysis - and the botnet uses the domain names of the C&C servers as the encryption keys.
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
Loki
Caller ID Spoofing
Worms
8. Allows skilled individuals to access phone Commands using Bluetooth wireless technology without notifying or alerting the phone's user. - Why: This vulnerability allows the hacker to initiate phone calls - send and read SMS - read and write phoneboo
Land
Bluejacking
Bluebugging
Loki
9. Counters:Best: Proper programming with Input value bounds checking. Keep systems current: Patching - hot fixes - etc.
Scrubbing
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
Buffer Overflow
Remote Code
10. Type: Buffer Overflow - How: Memory Stack is overflown to write data into another area of memory in the Identify of the System. (Priviledged System account) - Why: The most common cause of stack overflows is excessively deep or infinite recursion. T
Stack Overflow
Heap Overflow
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Jamming
11. RF interference / blocking
Jamming
Shellcode
Bluebugging
Network Address Hijacking
12. May result in data at a specific location being altered in an arbitrary way - or in arbitrary code being executed. - Counter: make sure your OS and application libraries are patched to detect/prevent against these types of overflows
Worm Names
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Deliberate exploit
Black Hole
13. AKA: Asynchronous attack - How: Takes advantage of dependency of event timing in a multitasking OS - How: Attacker gets between instructions and manipulates something. Goal is Control the result.
Caller ID Spoofing
ARP Spoof
Time of Use/Time of Check Attack
Black Hole
14. Type: DoS - How: Attacker sends your packets to a non-existent address - How: One way is special type of ARP poisioning.
Deliberate exploit
Black Hole
Bluesnarfing
Ping of Death
15. Type of Remote Shellcode that downloads and executes some form of malware on the target system. This type of shellcode does not spawn a shell - but rather instructs the machine to download a certain executable file off the network - save it to disk
Download and Execute
Land
Scrubbing
Tap
16. Flood w/ Pairing requests. (spoofed or not) - Victim consumed with Responses
Botnet Names
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Bluejacking
TDL-4 Bot-Net
17. Type: DoS - How: Send Packet > max allowable size of 65535 bytes - Why: Causes vulnerable host to fail and/or reboot - Counter: Ingress filter - patch systems
Loki
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
Ping of Death
Jamming
18. Type: Worm. How: Self replicating usually Rapid over net or other means.
ARP Table Poisioning
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Worms
Bluesnarfing
19. Attacker uses program presenting Fake Logon Screen Capture Username & Pswd - Counter: Host IDS
Worm Names
E-mail address spoofing
Spoofing at Login
Caller ID Spoofing
20. Redirect victim to fake website - How: DNS poison -
Network Address Hijacking
ARP Spoof
Bluetooth Malicious Threats
Pharming
21. Uses DiffieH PK to determine shared Symm key
Download and Execute
Mail bombing
S-RPC
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
22. Overwhelm mail server & Clients
Cramming
Mail bombing
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
E-mail address spoofing
23. Sasser - Blaster - Melissa - ILOVEYOU - Conflicker
Shellcode
Worm Names
Mail bombing
Heap Overflow
24. Change user's service provider - w/o concent
Scrubbing
Botnet Names
Slamming
Birthday
25. Mobile device attack that seeks to dupe the recipient of an SMS (short message service - text) message into downloading malware onto their handset. Once the handset is infected - it can be turned into a 'zombie -' allowing attackers to control the de
Web Spoofing Attack
Deliberate exploit
Loki
SMiShing
26. Add extra bogus charges
Port Scanning
Bluetooth BackDoor Attack
Cramming
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
27. Attacker deletes incriminating evidence or data from audit logs. - Countermeasure: Protect log from modification via strict access control
Port Scanning
Caller ID Spoofing
Scrubbing
Race Condition
28. Installs its rootkit on the MBR - Sector 0 - Invisible to OS & security software - advanced encryption and the use of a public peer-to-peer (P2P) network for the instructions issued to the malware by (C&C) servers
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Remote Code
E-mail address spoofing
TDL-4 Bot-Net
29. Type: DDoS - How: uses a master program to communicate with attack agents across multiple nets. Attacker remotely connects to Master host - then master commands agents to perform UDP flood to a list of Target IP addresses. - Why: your IP address is i
Hijacking Tools
Trinoo
Tap
Botnet Names
30. Type: DoS (Flood or Crashing) - How: Malformed fragmented packts - Why: Causes vulnerable host to fail and/or reboot - Countermeasure: Network IDS - drop faulty or corrupted packets - ingress filters
Teardrop
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Remote Code
31. Type: Buffer Overflow in the heap data area. - Heap overflows are exploitable in a different manner to that of stack-based overflows. Memory on the heap is dynamically allocated by the application at run-time and typically contains program data. Expl
Cramming
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
Heap Overflow
Birthday
32. The botnet also uses the public Kad P2P network for one of its two channels for communicating between infected PCs and the C&C servers - said Kaspersky. Previously - botnets that communicated via P2P used a closed network they had created.
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
Teardrop
Bluejacking
Wardialing
33. In computer security - a shellcode is a small piece of code used as the payload in the exploitation of a software vulnerability. It is called 'shellcode' because it typically starts a command shell from which the attacker can control the compromised
Time of Use/Time of Check Attack
Shellcode
Ping of Death
Birthday
34. Attacker must win the race of responding between 2 different processes carrying out a task/function. Counter: Do not Split up critical tasks that can have results or sequence altered. - Employ Software locks to files to prevent unauthorized access.
Race Condition
TDL-4 Bot-Net
Network Address Hijacking
Jamming
35. How: SMTP doesn't provide any authentication.E-mail address spoofing is done in quite the same way as writing a forged return address using snail mail. As long as the letter fits the protocol - (i.e. stamp - postal code) the SMTP protocol will send t
Hijacking Tools
E-mail address spoofing
Shellcode
Download and Execute
36. How: Attacker uses technologies (especially associated with VoIP) that allow callers to lie about their identity and present false names and numbers - Why: defraud or harass.
Caller ID Spoofing
Tribal Flood Network (TFN) & TFN2K
Bluesnarfing
Tap
37. Type: Masquerading Attack - How: For a given IP address in ARP table - attacker enters his MAC address - Why: Attacker alters System ARP table. Goal to receive packets.
Network Address Hijacking
Jamming
Birthday
ARP Table Poisioning
38. Type: Fun or Snoop Info - How: Attacker sends unsolicited message to Bluetooth enabled device. e.g. insert contact into address book. Why: May Enable future attacks on the device via emails - Recipent reaction or get data w/o your knowledge while con
S-RPC
Race Condition
Bluejacking
Botnet Names
39. How: Attacker sends forged stream of TCP SYN packets with Source & Destination = to victim's IP address - Victim's system attempts to reply to itselft (attacks itself) - Vulnerable systems: Systems with BSD TCP/IP stack - Counter: Edge routers drop p
Teardrop
Land
Heap Overflow
Botnet Names
40. Social engineering technique
Ping of Death
Pharming
Phishing
Heap Overflow
41. Bluebugging - Bluesnarfing
Spoofing at Login
Worms
Bluetooth Malicious Threats
Buffer Overflow
42. Type: Reconn - How: Use port scanning tool to identify Listening Ports (TCP/UDP) on Servers - Tools: Nmap - Foundstone Products (Scanline - etc.) - Angry IP Scanner - etc.
Port Scanning
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
Phishing
Shellcode
43. aka ARP Flooding - poisioning
ARP Spoof
E-mail address spoofing
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
Network Address Hijacking
44. Type: Man-in-Middle Attack - AKA: Phishing - URL Spoofing - How: Spoofs the public key of web site/server - Why: Get users to go to Attackers Website instead - Goal: usually to get user's data (ID - password - bank account info - etc.) However - coul
Phishing
Buffer Overflow
Web Spoofing Attack
E-mail address spoofing
45. Intruder re-routes data traffic from a network device to Attacker's machine
Network Address Hijacking
Bluesnarfing
Ping of Death
Bluetooth Malicious Threats
46. 1) If phone is vulnerable to bluesnarfing or bluebugging-- seek patches. Manufacturer or manufacturer-authorized dealer. Software patches available for many older Bluetooth phones. 2) Turn device to non-discoverable mode when not using Bluetooth tech
Worms
ARP Spoof
Pharming
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
47. 'Pairing' establishes trust relationship - Access to All Data on device
Race Condition
ARP Table Poisioning
Bluetooth BackDoor Attack
Pharming
48. Hacker gains access to data stored on Bluetooth enabled phone. Why: hacker make phone calls - send & receive text messages - read & write phonebook contacts - eavesdrop on phone conversations - and connect to Internet. - How: requires advanced equip
Spoofing at Login
Black Hole
Bluesnarfing
Trinoo
49. Counters: A firewall can be used to detect the outgoing connections made by connect-back shellcodes and the attempt to accept incoming connections made by bindshells. They can therefore offer some protection against an attacker - even if the system i
Phishing
Slamming
Remote Code
Bluebugging
50. Juggernaut & HUNT Project - Spy then attack
Web Spoofing Attack
Heap Overflow
Hijacking Tools
S-RPC