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CISSP Attacks
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1. aka ARP Flooding - poisioning
Bluetooth BackDoor Attack
Botnet Names
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
ARP Spoof
2. Add extra bogus charges
ARP Spoof
Port Scanning
Cramming
Network Address Hijacking
3. 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
Land
Tap
Download and Execute
Deliberate exploit
4. 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
Cramming
Bluebugging
Land
Loki
5. RF interference / blocking
Botnet Names
Jamming
Caller ID Spoofing
Stack Overflow
6. 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.
Cramming
ARP Table Poisioning
Black Hole
Wardialing
7. Covert Channel ICMP comms - writes data after header Sniffing - Counter: Secure protocols -
ARP Spoof
Worms
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
Loki
8. 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
Stack Overflow
Deliberate exploit
Wardialing
Botnet Names
9. Social engineering technique
Phishing
Deliberate exploit
Stack Overflow
Wardialing
10. 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
Trinoo
Tribal Flood Network (TFN) & TFN2K
Network Address Hijacking
Cramming
11. 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
Worm Names
Bluebugging
Caller ID Spoofing
Bluejacking
12. Intruder re-routes data traffic from a network device to Attacker's machine
Bluebugging
Shellcode
Network Address Hijacking
Stack Overflow
13. Bluebugging - Bluesnarfing
ARP Spoof
Stack Overflow
Download and Execute
Bluetooth Malicious Threats
14. 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
Caller ID Spoofing
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
Bluebugging
E-mail address spoofing
15. Uses DiffieH PK to determine shared Symm key
Buffer Overflow
S-RPC
Slamming
Tribal Flood Network (TFN) & TFN2K
16. 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
ARP Table Poisioning
Phishing
Spoofing at Login
17. 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
Bluetooth BackDoor Attack
Network Address Hijacking
Download and Execute
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
18. Flood w/ Pairing requests. (spoofed or not) - Victim consumed with Responses
Cramming
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Spoofing at Login
Botnet Names
19. 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.
Remote Code
Port Scanning
S-RPC
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
20. 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
Heap Overflow
SMiShing
Wardialing
Bluesnarfing
21. Sasser - Blaster - Melissa - ILOVEYOU - Conflicker
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
Trinoo
Teardrop
Worm Names
22. Attacker uses program presenting Fake Logon Screen Capture Username & Pswd - Counter: Host IDS
Spoofing at Login
Bluebugging
ARP Spoof
Web Spoofing Attack
23. Zeus - Mariposa - Storm
Hijacking Tools
Botnet Names
Race Condition
TDL-4 Bot-Net
24. 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.
Bluesnarfing
Worm Names
Jamming
Birthday
25. 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.
Time of Use/Time of Check Attack
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Heap Overflow
E-mail address spoofing
26. 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
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
Bluebugging
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
E-mail address spoofing
27. 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
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S-RPC
TDL-4 Bot-Net
28. 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
Bluesnarfing
Tap
Bluebugging
Cramming
29. 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
Worm Names
Teardrop
30. Juggernaut & HUNT Project - Spy then attack
ARP Spoof
TDL-4 Bot-Net
E-mail address spoofing
Hijacking Tools
31. 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
Web Spoofing Attack
Port Scanning
Trinoo
SMiShing
32. 'Pairing' establishes trust relationship - Access to All Data on device
Bluetooth BackDoor Attack
Spoofing at Login
Bluesnarfing
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
33. 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
Heap Overflow
Teardrop
ARP Spoof
Loki
34. Attacker deletes incriminating evidence or data from audit logs. - Countermeasure: Protect log from modification via strict access control
Scrubbing
Deliberate exploit
Port Scanning
Download and Execute
35. Type: Worm. How: Self replicating usually Rapid over net or other means.
Bluebugging
Worms
Race Condition
Cramming
36. Change user's service provider - w/o concent
Mail bombing
Slamming
Botnet Names
Teardrop
37. Type: DoS - How: Attacker sends your packets to a non-existent address - How: One way is special type of ARP poisioning.
Black Hole
Buffer Overflow
Trinoo
Bluetooth Malicious Threats
38. 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.
Birthday
Ping of Death
Race Condition
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
39. 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
Ping of Death
Bluetooth Malicious Threats
Pharming
Botnet Names
40. Redirect victim to fake website - How: DNS poison -
Pharming
Cramming
Black Hole
Loki
41. 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
Network Address Hijacking
Jamming
Botnet Names
TDL-4 Bot-Net
42. 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
Shellcode
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Hijacking Tools
S-RPC
43. Overwhelm mail server & Clients
Birthday
Worm Names
Mail bombing
Bluebugging
44. Counter: Non-public #s - Tight AC for modems / pools
Wardialing
Race Condition
Bluetooth BackDoor Attack
TDL-4 Bot-Net
45. 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
SMiShing
Wardialing
Bluesnarfing
Network Address Hijacking
46. 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
Port Scanning
Deliberate exploit
Worms
Web Spoofing Attack
47. 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
Ping of Death
Wardialing
Network Address Hijacking
Scrubbing
48. 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.
E-mail address spoofing
Teardrop
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
Phishing
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
Remote Code
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
Pharming
Buffer Overflow
50. 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
Deliberate exploit
Mail bombing
Birthday
Heap Overflow