A penetration tester discovered a vulnerability that has the following CVEs:
Which of the following CVEs should be remediated first?
A penetration tester has compromised a customer's internal network, gaining access to a file server that hosts email server backups. Which of the following is the best tool to assist with data exfiltration?
A penetration tester wants to crack MD5 hashes more quickly. The tester knows that the first part of the password is Winter followed by four digits and a special character at the end. Which of the following commands should the tester use?
A penetration tester observes an application enforcing strict access controls. Which of the following would allow the tester to bypass these controls and successfully access the organization's sensitive files?
A physical penetration tester needs to get inside an organization's office and collect sensitive information without acting suspiciously or being noticed by the security guards. The tester has observed that the company's ticket gate does not scan the badges, and employees leave their badges on the table while going to the restroom. Which of the following techniques can the tester use to gain physical access to the office? (Choose two.)
For a penetration test engagement, a security engineer decides to impersonate the IT help desk. The security engineer sends a phishing email containing an urgent request for users to change their passwords and a link to https://example.com/index.html. The engineer has designed the attack so that once the users enter the credentials, the index.html page takes the credentials and then forwards them to another server that the security engineer is controlling. Given the following information:
Which of the following lines of code should the security engineer add to make the attack successful?
Given the following table:
Which of the following data structures would most likely be used to store known-good configurations of firewall rules in a Python script?
A penetration tester examines a web-based shopping catalog and discovers the following URL when viewing a product in the catalog:
http://company.com/catalog.asp?productid=22
The penetration tester alters the URL in the browser to the following and notices a delay when the page refreshes:
http://company.com/catalog.asp?productid=22;WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:05'
Which of the following should the penetration tester attempt NEXT?
A penetration tester was able to compromise a web server and move laterally into a Linux web server. The tester now wants to determine the identity of the last user who signed in to the web server. Which of the following log files will show this activity?
TESTED 26 Apr 2025
