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CISSP Attacks
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1. Social engineering technique
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Port Scanning
Phishing
2. 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.
Hijacking Tools
Buffer Overflow
Port Scanning
ARP Spoof
3. 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
ARP Spoof
Stack Overflow
Black Hole
4. aka ARP Flooding - poisioning
Botnet Names
ARP Spoof
Stack Overflow
Bluetooth BackDoor Attack
5. 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
Tribal Flood Network (TFN) & TFN2K
Land
Port Scanning
Race Condition
6. Add extra bogus charges
Teardrop
Stack Overflow
Worm Names
Cramming
7. Counters:Best: Proper programming with Input value bounds checking. Keep systems current: Patching - hot fixes - etc.
Buffer Overflow
Bluesnarfing
Jamming
Stack Overflow
8. 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
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
Bluejacking
Slamming
S-RPC
9. Attacker deletes incriminating evidence or data from audit logs. - Countermeasure: Protect log from modification via strict access control
Scrubbing
Worm Names
TDL-4 Bot-Net
Botnet Names
10. 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
Bluesnarfing
Phishing
Cramming
11. 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
Scrubbing
E-mail address spoofing
Bluetooth Threat Mitigation
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
12. 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
Teardrop
Network Address Hijacking
SMiShing
Spoofing at Login
13. Intruder re-routes data traffic from a network device to Attacker's machine
Bluetooth BackDoor Attack
ARP Table Poisioning
Network Address Hijacking
E-mail address spoofing
14. Redirect victim to fake website - How: DNS poison -
SMiShing
Network Address Hijacking
Pharming
Birthday
15. Covert Channel ICMP comms - writes data after header Sniffing - Counter: Secure protocols -
Network Address Hijacking
Loki
Worm Names
Land
16. 'Pairing' establishes trust relationship - Access to All Data on device
Bluebugging
Black Hole
Bluetooth BackDoor Attack
Port Scanning
17. 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
Bluebugging
Remote Code
Buffer Overflow
Botnet Names
18. 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.
Web Spoofing Attack
Black Hole
Race Condition
Download and Execute
19. Juggernaut & HUNT Project - Spy then attack
Heap Overflow
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Hijacking Tools
Buffer Overflow
20. 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
Trinoo
TDL-4 Bot-Net
Remote Code
Race Condition
21. Sasser - Blaster - Melissa - ILOVEYOU - Conflicker
Worm Names
TDL-4 Bot-Net
Bluebugging
Wardialing
22. Counter: Non-public #s - Tight AC for modems / pools
Worms
TDL-4 Bot-Net
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
Wardialing
23. 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
Slamming
Ping of Death
Bluesnarfing
ARP Table Poisioning
24. 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
Spoofing at Login
Network Address Hijacking
Remote Code
Botnet Names
25. 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
Trinoo
Land
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
26. 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
Spoofing at Login
Heap Overflow
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
27. Uses DiffieH PK to determine shared Symm key
E-mail address spoofing
S-RPC
Worm Names
Tap
28. 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
Bluetooth BackDoor Attack
Trinoo
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
29. 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
Time of Use/Time of Check Attack
Download and Execute
TDL-4 Bot-Net
Worms
30. 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
Tap
ARP Spoof
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
Trinoo
31. RF interference / blocking
Hijacking Tools
Bluesnarfing
Jamming
Pharming
32. Bluebugging - Bluesnarfing
Bluetooth Malicious Threats
Heap Overflow
TDL-4 Bot-Net #2
Black Hole
33. 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.
S-RPC
Birthday
Network Address Hijacking
Buffer Overflow
34. Zeus - Mariposa - Storm
Botnet Names
Scrubbing
ARP Spoof
Race Condition
35. Attacker uses program presenting Fake Logon Screen Capture Username & Pswd - Counter: Host IDS
Spoofing at Login
Port Scanning
Scrubbing
Remote Code
36. Change user's service provider - w/o concent
Wardialing
ARP Spoof
Bluetooth Malicious Threats
Slamming
37. 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.
Mail bombing
Trinoo
Time of Use/Time of Check Attack
Caller ID Spoofing
38. 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
Worm Names
Ping of Death
Shellcode
Black Hole
39. Type: Worm. How: Self replicating usually Rapid over net or other means.
Bluetooth Malicious Threats
Network Address Hijacking
Worms
Black Hole
40. 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
Shellcode
Mail bombing
Web Spoofing Attack
Phishing
41. 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.
Phishing
Buffer Overflow
Black Hole
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
42. 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.
Web Spoofing Attack
Bluejacking
Pharming
Time of Use/Time of Check Attack
43. 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
Spoofing at Login
ARP Spoof
Tribal Flood Network (TFN) & TFN2K
Network Address Hijacking
44. Overwhelm mail server & Clients
Black Hole
Spoofing at Login
Worm Names
Mail bombing
45. Flood w/ Pairing requests. (spoofed or not) - Victim consumed with Responses
Bluetooth DoS (1 or more attackers)
Scrubbing
Cramming
Hijacking Tools
46. 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
Shellcode
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3
Pharming
Stack Overflow
47. 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
Worm Names
Bluesnarfing
Trinoo
Bluejacking
48. 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
Time of Use/Time of Check Attack
Birthday
Ping of Death
Worms
49. 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
Port Scanning
Worms
Cramming
50. Type: DoS - How: Attacker sends your packets to a non-existent address - How: One way is special type of ARP poisioning.
Birthday
Black Hole
Race Condition
TDL-4 Bot-Net #3