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PT0-003 · Question #164
A client recently hired a penetration testing firm to conduct an assessment of their consumer- facing web application. Several days into the assessment, the client's networking team observes a substan
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Submitted by rachelw· Mar 6, 2026Post-exploitation and Lateral Movement
Question
A client recently hired a penetration testing firm to conduct an assessment of their consumer- facing web application. Several days into the assessment, the client's networking team observes a substantial increase in DNS traffic. Which of the following would most likely explain the increase in DNS traffic?
Options
- ACovert data exfiltration
- BURL spidering
- CHTML scrapping
- DDoS attack
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#DNS exfiltration#covert data exfiltration#network anomalies