EC-Council
EC0-350 · Question #735
Joe the Hacker breaks into XYZ's Linux system and plants a wiretap program in order to sniff passwords and user accounts off the wire. The wiretap program is embedded as a Trojan horse in one of the…
The correct answer is C. Replace original ifconfig utility with the rootkit version of ifconfig hiding Promiscuous information being. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
Joe the Hacker breaks into XYZ's Linux system and plants a wiretap program in order to sniff passwords and user accounts off the wire. The wiretap program is embedded as a Trojan horse in one of the network utilities. Joe is worried that network administrator might detect the wiretap program by querying the interfaces to see if they are running in promiscuous mode. What can Joe do to hide the wiretap program from being detected by ifconfig command?
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Options
- ABlock output to the console whenever the user runs ifconfig command by running screen capture utiliyu
- BRun the wiretap program in stealth mode from being detected by the ifconfig command.
- CReplace original ifconfig utility with the rootkit version of ifconfig hiding Promiscuous information being
- DYou cannot disable Promiscuous mode detection on Linux systems.
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(43 responses)- A12% (5)
- B7% (3)
- C79% (34)
- D2% (1)
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