GSLC · Question #350
All of the following are the password cracking attacks performed by the cain tool except for which one?
The correct answer is C. DoS attack. Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool supporting brute force, dictionary, and rainbow table attacks, but it has no capability to launch Denial of Service attacks.
Question
All of the following are the password cracking attacks performed by the cain tool except for which one?
Options
- ABrute force attack
- BDictionary attack
- CDoS attack
- DRainbow attack
How the community answered
(30 responses)- B3% (1)
- C93% (28)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool supporting brute force, dictionary, and rainbow table attacks, but it has no capability to launch Denial of Service attacks.
Brute force attack is a native feature of Cain and Abel, exhaustively trying all possible character combinations to recover a password.
Dictionary attack is a built-in Cain and Abel method that tests passwords against a precompiled wordlist.
DoS attacks are network-layer disruption techniques that overwhelm a target with traffic or requests, which is entirely outside the scope of the Cain and Abel toolset. Cain and Abel is strictly a password auditing and recovery application, and none of its modules are designed to disrupt service availability.
Rainbow attack (rainbow table lookup) is a core Cain and Abel feature used to reverse cryptographic hashes by comparing them against precomputed hash chains.
Concept tested: Cain and Abel tool password cracking methods
Topics
Community Discussion
No community discussion yet for this question.