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Exam CFR-310 topic 1 question 27 discussion

Actual exam question from CertNexus's CFR-310
Question #: 27
Topic #: 1
[All CFR-310 Questions]

During a malware-driven distributed denial of service attack, a security researcher found excessive requests to a name server referring to the same domain name and host name encoded in hexadecimal. The malware author used which type of command and control?

  • A. Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
  • B. Dnscat2
  • C. Custom channel
  • D. File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

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Wutan
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
The answer is B. Dnscat2. Dnscat2 is a DNS tunneling protocol that can be used to establish a covert communication channel between a malware-infected device and a command and control server. Dnscat2 uses DNS queries to transmit data, which makes it difficult to detect and block.
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r04dB10ck
1 year, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: B
netcat via DNS protocol
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