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Which operation has as its goal the identification of all available services on a device?
- port scan
- banner grabbing
- OS fingerprinting
- ping scan
Explanation:
A port scan identifies the open ports on a device, and thus the services available.
A ping scan has as its goal identification of all live devices in the network. A smurf attack is an attack where a ping request is sent to a broadcast network address with the aim of overwhelming the system.
Operating system (OS) fingerprinting has as its goal the identification of the operating system and version. Banner grabbing is a fingerprinting technique that relies on morphed or empty TCP packets that are sent over to a target machine. Telnet, Netcat, Nmap and other tools can be used to carry out banner grabbing.
Banner grabbing also has as its goal the identification of the operating system and its version. Banner grabbing intercepts a text file sent by a server or a host. The text file includes OS information and in the case of a web server, perhaps the basic configuration info. The attacker can then exploit that information.
Objective: Attack Methods
Sub-Objective: Describe these endpoint-based attacks: Duffer overflows, Command and control (C2), Malware, Rootkit, Port scanning, Host Profiling
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