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312-50V12 · Question #306

In an attempt to damage the reputation of a competitor organization, Hailey, a professional hacker, gathers a list of employee and client email addresses and other related information by using various

The correct answer is A. CeWL. Hailey is utilizing a specific tool to extract a list of words from a competitor's website, which will then be used to create a custom dictionary for a subsequent brute-force attack on gathered email addresses.

Submitted by jian89· Mar 4, 2026Reconnaissance Techniques

Question

In an attempt to damage the reputation of a competitor organization, Hailey, a professional hacker, gathers a list of employee and client email addresses and other related information by using various search engines, social networking sites, and web spidering tools. In this process, she also uses an automated tool to gather a list of words from the target website to further perform a brute-force attack on the previously gathered email addresses. What is the tool used by Hailey for gathering a list of words from the target website?

Options

  • ACeWL
  • BOrbot
  • CShadowsocks
  • DPsiphon

How the community answered

(32 responses)
  • A
    91% (29)
  • B
    6% (2)
  • D
    3% (1)

Why each option

Hailey is utilizing a specific tool to extract a list of words from a competitor's website, which will then be used to create a custom dictionary for a subsequent brute-force attack on gathered email addresses.

ACeWLCorrect

CeWL (Custom Word List generator) is an open-source tool specifically designed to spider a target URL and generate a list of unique words found on the website, which is then used to create a custom dictionary for password guessing or brute-force attacks. This perfectly matches the attacker's objective of gathering words from the target website for a brute-force attack.

BOrbot

Orbot is an application that routes internet traffic through the Tor network, primarily used for anonymization and bypassing censorship, not for generating word lists from websites.

CShadowsocks

Shadowsocks is a secure socks5 proxy designed for bypassing internet censorship and ensuring private communication, not for extracting words from web pages.

DPsiphon

Psiphon is an internet circumvention tool used to bypass censorship and access blocked content, and it does not provide functionality for generating word lists from target websites.

Concept tested: Reconnaissance tools for custom dictionary generation

Source: https://github.com/digininja/CeWL

Topics

#wordlist generation#CeWL#brute-force attacks#reconnaissance tools

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