N10-009 · Question #265
A user attempts to log in to a corporate website by utilizing a shortcut. The shortcut has been used many times before. The user then notices some discrepancies on the company website. Which of the…
The correct answer is C. DNS poisoning. A user notices discrepancies on a corporate website accessed via a previously valid shortcut, indicating a potential redirection to an illegitimate site.
Question
A user attempts to log in to a corporate website by utilizing a shortcut. The shortcut has been used many times before. The user then notices some discrepancies on the company website. Which of the following is most likely the reason for this issue?
Options
- AVLAN hopping
- BARP spoofing
- CDNS poisoning
- DMAC flooding
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Why each option
A user notices discrepancies on a corporate website accessed via a previously valid shortcut, indicating a potential redirection to an illegitimate site.
VLAN hopping is an attack that allows traffic from one VLAN to access another VLAN, disrupting network segmentation, but it does not directly alter DNS resolution or redirect a user to a fraudulent website.
ARP spoofing (or ARP poisoning) associates an attacker's MAC address with a legitimate IP address on a local network, primarily to intercept local traffic, not to redirect a user to a fraudulent website via a public DNS resolution.
DNS poisoning involves an attacker injecting false DNS information into a DNS resolver's cache, causing it to resolve a legitimate domain name to an incorrect (attacker-controlled) IP address. This redirection would lead the user to an impostor website, which would display discrepancies compared to the genuine corporate site.
MAC flooding attacks overwhelm a switch's MAC address table, forcing it to behave like a hub and broadcast all traffic, which degrades network performance but does not redirect users to a malicious website based on a URL.
Concept tested: DNS poisoning attack mechanism
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/dns/what-is-dns#dns-poisoning
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