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