Exam 312-50v11 topic 1 question 45 discussion

Actual exam question from ECCouncil's 312-50v11

Question #: 45
Topic #: 1

An attacker is trying to redirect the traffic of a small office. That office is using their own mail server, DNS server and NTP server because of the importance of their job. The attacker gain access to the DNS server and redirect the direction www.google.com to his own IP address. Now when the employees of the office want to go to Google they are being redirected to the attacker machine. What is the name of this kind of attack?

A. MAC Flooding
B. Smurf Attack
C. DNS spoofing
D. ARP Poisoning

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

by Angelife at July 17, 2021, 2:04 a.m.

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Angelife

Highly Voted 2 years, 9 months ago

C: DNS is the protocol that translates a domain name (e.g., www.eccouncil.org) into an IP address (e.g., 208.66.172.56). The protocol uses DNS tables that contain the domain name and its equivalent IP address stored in a distributed large database. In DNS poisoning, also known as DNS spoofing, the attacker tricks a DNS server into believing that it has received authentic information when, in reality, it has not received any. The attacker tries to redirect the victim to a malicious server instead of the legitimate server. The attacker does this by manipulating the DNS table entries in the DNS. This results in substitution of a false IP address at the DNS level, where web addresses are converted into numeric IP addresses.

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AbdullahK1997

Highly Voted 2 years, 9 months ago

DNS spoofing is correct

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sudowhoami

Most Recent 7 months, 1 week ago

Selected Answer: C

Option C. DNS spoofing is correct

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karloska2015

1 year, 6 months ago

Selected Answer: C

The answer is C