Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v12) — Question 296

Morris, an attacker, wanted to check whether the target AP is in a locked state. He attempted using different utilities to identify WPS-enabled APs in the target wireless network. Ultimately, he succeeded with one special command-line utility.

Which of the following command-line utilities allowed Morris to discover the WPS-enabled APs?

Answer options

• A. wash
• B. net view
• C. macof
• D. ntptrace

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A, wash, which is specifically designed to identify WPS-enabled access points. The other options, such as net view, macof, and ntptrace, are not intended for discovering WPS-enabled APs and serve different networking purposes.