Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v12) — Question 288

In an attempt to damage the reputation of a competitor organization, Hailey, a professional hacker, gathers a list of employee and client email addresses and other related information by using various search engines, social networking sites, and web spidering tools. In this process, she also uses an automated tool to gather a list of words from the target website to further perform a brute-force attack on the previously gathered email addresses.

What is the tool used by Hailey for gathering a list of words from the target website?

Answer options

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A, CeWL, which is specifically designed to create a custom wordlist by spidering websites. The other options, such as Orbot, Shadowsocks, and Psiphon, are tools related to anonymity and bypassing censorship, not for gathering word lists from websites.