Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v10) — Question 154

CompanyXYZ has asked you to assess the security of their perimeter email gateway. From your office in New York, you craft a specially formatted email message and send it across the Internet to an employee of CompanyXYZ. The employee of CompanyXYZ is aware of your test. Your email message looks like this:

From:[email protected]-
To:[email protected]

Subject: Test message -

Date: 4/3/2017 14:37 -
The employee of CompanyXYZ receives your email message.
This proves that CompanyXYZ's email gateway doesn't prevent what?

Answer options

• A. Email Masquerading
• B. Email Harvesting
• C. Email Phishing
• D. Email Spoofing

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D, Email Spoofing, because the employee received an email that appears to be from an unauthorized sender. The other options do not specifically address the act of sending an email that pretends to be from someone else, which is the essence of spoofing.