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PT0-002 · Question #37

A penetration tester ran an Nmap scan on an Internet-facing network device with the -F option and found a few open ports. To further enumerate, the tester ran another scan using the following command:

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Information Gathering and Vulnerability Scanning

Question

A penetration tester ran an Nmap scan on an Internet-facing network device with the -F option and found a few open ports. To further enumerate, the tester ran another scan using the following command:

nmap -O -A -sS -p- 100.100.100.50 Nmap returned that all 65,535 ports were filtered. Which of the following MOST likely occurred on the second scan?

Options

  • AA firewall or IPS blocked the scan.
  • BThe penetration tester used unsupported flags.
  • CThe edge network device was disconnected.
  • DThe scan returned ICMP echo replies.

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Topics

#Nmap#Port Scanning#Firewall#IPS
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