An auditor is reviewing the following output from a password-cracking tool: User:1: Password1 User2: Recovery! User3: Alaskan10 User4: 4Private User5: PerForMance2 Which of the following methods did…

A hybrid attack combines dictionary words with brute-force mutations such as appending numbers, capitalizing letters, or adding special characters. All five passwords (e.g., 'Password1', 'Recovery!', 'PerForMance2') consist of recognizable dictionary words modified with numbers or symbols, which is exactly the technique a hybrid attack automates by taking wordlist entries and applying rule-based transformations.

A pure dictionary attack uses wordlist entries as-is without modification, and none of the cracked passwords are plain dictionary words - they all contain appended numbers or symbols that a simple dictionary attack would not produce.

Brute force systematically tries every possible character combination without any linguistic basis, making it statistically very unlikely to produce five passwords that all happen to be recognizable English words with minor modifications.

A rainbow table attack uses precomputed hash chains to reverse password hashes and does not describe a cracking methodology based on word patterns or mutations; it is a lookup technique, not a generation strategy.