Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v13) — Question 262

Attacker Simon targeted the communication network of an organization and disabled the security controls of NetNTLMv1 by modifying the values of LMCompatibilityLevel, NTLMMinClientSec, and RestrictSendingNTLMTraffic. He then extracted all the non-network logon tokens from all the active processes to masquerade as a legitimate user to launch further attacks.
What is the type of attack performed by Simon?

Answer options

• A. Combinator attack
• B. Dictionary attack
• C. Rainbow table attack
• D. Internal monologue attack

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D, Internal monologue attack, as Simon was able to impersonate a legitimate user by extracting non-network logon tokens. Options A, B, and C refer to different methods of password cracking and do not apply in this context, where the focus is on bypassing security to gain unauthorized access.