GIAC GCIH - GIAC Certified Incident Handler
John, a part-time hacker, has accessed in unauthorized way to the www.yourbank.com banking Website and stolen the bank account information of its users and their credit card numbers by using the SQL injection attack. Now, John wants to sell this information to malicious person Mark and make a deal to get a good amount of money. Since, he does not want to send the hacked information in the clear text format to Mark; he decides to send information in hidden text. For this, he takes a steganography tool and hides the information in ASCII text by appending whitespace to the end of lines and encrypts the hidden information by using the IDEA encryption algorithm. Which of the following tools is John using for steganography?
Adam works as a Security Analyst for Umbrella Inc. Company has a Windows-based network. All computers run on Windows XP. Manager of the Sales department complains Adam about the unusual behavior of his computer. He told Adam that some pornographic contents are suddenly appeared on his computer overnight. Adam suspects that some malicious software or Trojans have been installed on the computer. He runs some diagnostics programs and Port scanners and found that the Port 12345, 12346, and 20034 are open. Adam also noticed some tampering with the Windows registry, which causes one application to run every time when Windows start.
Which of the following is the most likely reason behind this issue?
You work as a Network Administrator for InformSec Inc. You find that the TCP port number 23476 is open on your server. You suspect that there may be a Trojan named Donald Dick installed on your server. Now you want to verify whether Donald Dick is installed on it or not. For this, you want to know the process running on port 23476, as well as the process id, process name, and the path of the process on your server. Which of the following applications will you most likely use to accomplish the task?
Which of the following is a reason to implement security logging on a DNS server?
Which of the following password cracking attacks is based on a pre-calculated hash table to retrieve plain text passwords?
Which of the following tools combines two programs, and also encrypts the resulting package in an attempt to foil antivirus programs?
You work as a Network Administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. The company has a TCP/IP-based network. An attacker uses software that keeps trying password combinations until the correct password is found. Which type of attack is this?
Which of the following tools can be used for steganography?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
