Certified Ethical Hacker Session Hijacking and Evading IDS Firewalls 1

Question 1

Which type of session hijacking intercepts a session between two parties without requiring prediction of a sequence number?

Accepted Answer

Passive Hijacking

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Blind Hijacking

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Active Hijacking

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UDP Hijacking

Question 2

What is the primary goal of TCP session hijacking?

Accepted Answer

To take over an established TCP connection

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To crash the target server

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To decrypt TLS traffic

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To perform a SYN flood attack

Question 3

Which tool is commonly used for session hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks on a LAN?

Accepted Answer

Ettercap

Answer

Nmap

Answer

Nikto

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Nessus

Question 4

What countermeasure best prevents session hijacking caused by predictable session tokens?

Accepted Answer

Using long, randomly generated session IDs

Answer

Disabling cookies

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Enforcing password complexity

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Enabling ICMP filtering

Question 5

Which attack technique do attackers use to steal session cookies by injecting a script into a vulnerable web application?

Accepted Answer

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

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SQL Injection

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CSRF

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Command Injection

Question 6

What is 'IP spoofing' used for in the context of session hijacking?

Accepted Answer

Masquerading as a trusted host to hijack a TCP session

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Encrypting session data

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Bypassing firewall rules via port forwarding

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Amplifying DoS traffic