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