Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v13) — Question 178

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

CeWL is a custom word list generator that crawls websites and collects words, making it ideal for Hailey's purpose of gathering a list of words for a brute-force attack. Orbot, Shadowsocks, and Psiphon are tools designed for anonymity and bypassing censorship, not specifically for collecting words from websites.