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312-50V10 · Question #157
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System Hacking
Question
A computer science student needs to fill some information into a secured Adobe PDF job application that was received from a prospective employer. Instead of requesting a new document that allowed the forms to be completed, the student decides to write a script that pulls passwords from a list of commonly used passwords to try against the secured PDF until the correct password is found or the list is exhausted. Which cryptography attack is the student attempting?
Options
- AMan-in-the-middle attack
- BSession hijacking
- CBrute-force attack
- DDictionary-attack
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Topics
#dictionary attack#password cracking#wordlist attack#PDF security