Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI v10) — Question 356

You are the security analyst working for a private company out of France. Your current assignment is to obtain credit card information from a Swiss bank owned by that company. After initial reconnaissance, you discover that the bank security defenses are very strong and would take too long to penetrate. You decide to get the information by monitoring the traffic between the bank and one of its subsidiaries in London. After monitoring some of the traffic, you see a lot of FTP packets traveling back and forth. You want to sniff the traffic and extract usernames and passwords. What tool could you use to get this information?

Answer options

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Ettercap is the correct choice because it specializes in network traffic sniffing and can capture usernames and passwords transmitted over protocols like FTP. Airsnort is focused on cracking WEP keys, Snort is primarily an intrusion detection system, and RaidSniff is less commonly used for this specific purpose, making them unsuitable for the task at hand.