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