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John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned the project of testing the preattack phase: Information gathering Determining network range Identifying active machines Finding open…

The correct answer is A. Traceroute B. NeoTrace C. Cheops. Network mapping tools like Traceroute, NeoTrace, and Cheops are used to discover topology and path information. Ettercap is a man-in-the-middle and sniffing tool, not a mapping tool.

Penetration Testing Foundations & Reconnaissance

Question

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned the project of testing the preattack phase:

Information gathering Determining network range Identifying active machines Finding open ports and applications lOS fingerprinting Fingerprinting services Now John wants to perform network mapping of the We-are-secure network. Which of the following tools can he use to accomplish his task? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options

  • ATraceroute
  • BNeoTrace
  • CCheops
  • DEttercap

How the community answered

(23 responses)
  • A
    74% (17)
  • D
    26% (6)

Why each option

Network mapping tools like Traceroute, NeoTrace, and Cheops are used to discover topology and path information. Ettercap is a man-in-the-middle and sniffing tool, not a mapping tool.

ATracerouteCorrect

Traceroute sends packets with incrementing TTL values to reveal each router hop along the path to a destination, directly mapping network topology. NeoTrace is a visual traceroute application that plots hops geographically, and Cheops is a network management and topology mapping tool - all three are valid tools for network mapping during the pre-attack reconnaissance phase.

BNeoTraceCorrect
CCheopsCorrect
DEttercap

Ettercap is a comprehensive suite for man-in-the-middle attacks, ARP poisoning, and packet sniffing on a LAN - it is used for active interception, not for mapping network topology or discovering routes.

Concept tested: Network mapping tools in ethical hacking reconnaissance

Source: https://nmap.org/book/traceroute.html

Topics

#network mapping#Traceroute#NeoTrace#Cheops

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