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Which of the following tools can be used for passive OS fingerprinting?

The correct answer is D. tcpdump. Passive OS fingerprinting analyzes captured network traffic without sending probes, making tcpdump the correct tool for this technique.

Packet Analysis with Wireshark & Command Line Tools

Question

Which of the following tools can be used for passive OS fingerprinting?

Options

  • Adig
  • Bnmap
  • Cping
  • Dtcpdump

How the community answered

(37 responses)
  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    8% (3)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    84% (31)

Why each option

Passive OS fingerprinting analyzes captured network traffic without sending probes, making tcpdump the correct tool for this technique.

Adig

dig is an active DNS query tool that sends DNS requests to a server, which is an active technique, not passive fingerprinting.

Bnmap

nmap performs active host and port scanning by sending crafted probe packets to targets, making it an active - not passive - fingerprinting tool.

Cping

ping sends active ICMP Echo Request packets to a target and waits for replies, which is an active probing technique.

DtcpdumpCorrect

tcpdump is a packet capture utility that passively listens to network traffic without injecting any packets of its own. By capturing live traffic and analyzing TCP/IP header fields such as TTL values, window sizes, and TCP options, an analyst can infer the remote operating system without alerting the target.

Concept tested: Passive OS fingerprinting using packet capture

Source: https://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcpdump.1.html

Topics

#passive OS fingerprinting#tcpdump#traffic analysis#reconnaissance

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