Network Forensics Practice Questions

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Network Forensics Practice Questions

Q1: Which filter can be used to find the correct FTP login?

Select one:

  • ftp.response.code == 230
  • ftp.response.code == 530
  • ftp.response.code == 227
  • ftp.response.code == 331
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: ftp.response.code == 230

Q2: Which filter(s) with ICMP traffic can be used to find online hosts?

Select one or more:

  • icmp.type == 0
  • icmp.resp_to
  • icmp.no_resp
  • ip.dst_host == <IP address>
Reveal Answer

The correct answers are:

  • icmp.type == 0 (Echo Reply)
  • icmp.resp_to (Response Frame)

Q3: What is a port scan?

Select one:

  • Enumerates any ports to be found on one or more hosts
  • Looks for a specific port(s) across multiple hosts.
  • A form of denial-of-service attack in which an attacker rapidly initiates a connection to a server without finalising the connection
  • A low-level network discovery tool used to associate physical (MAC) addresses to logical (IP) addresses
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: Enumerates any ports to be found on one or more hosts

Q4: How would you quickly identify whether a large pcap file with thousands of sessions contained FTP activity? How would you extract the transferred files?

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: Review the capture files for FTP and FTP-data connections. Once the sessions have been identified, you can reconstruct the files in Wireshark or similar tools.

Q5: How can your team detect the following suspicious activities through statistical network monitoring?

  1. Installation of dropper malware
  2. Malware that retrieves commands from a remote site
  3. Potential data theft
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is:

  1. Installation of dropper malware: HTTP GET requests over a certain size, issued immediately after e-mail is accessed.
  2. Malware retrieving commands: Connections occurring at a predictable frequency, where the originating system retrieves a small amount of data.
  3. Potential data theft: Abnormal amounts of data exiting the network

Refer to the Wireshark capture below for the following questions.

Show Network Capture 1
Show Network Capture 2

Q6: Refer to Capture 1. For the intial FTP connection, what is the source port used by the client:

Select one:

  • 25
  • 63227
  • 3655
  • 65000
  • 21
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 3655

Q7: Refer to Capture 1. For the FTP connection, what is the IP address of the client:

Select one:

  • 192.168.0.1
  • 192.168.75.132
  • 192.168.75.1
  • 192.168.0.20
  • 84.53.138.25
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 192.168.75.1

Q8: Refer to Capture 1. Which is the successful code to identify that the user has logged in after the connection has been made to the FTP server:

Select one:

  • 215
  • 200
  • 220
  • 331
  • 230
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 230

Q9: Ref to Capture 1. Which is the MAC code for a VMWare network card:

Select one:

  • 00:15:99
  • 00:50:56
  • ff:ff:ff
  • 00:1f:3c
  • 00:18:4d
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 00:50:56

Q10: Refer to Capture 2. For the www.intel.com lookup, what is the source port used by the client for the DNS request:

Select one:

  • 53
  • 63227
  • 21
  • 25
  • 65000
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 63227

Q11: Refer to Capture 1. Which FTP command is used to list the current directory:

Select one:

  • CWD
  • SYST
  • PASV
  • LIST
  • PWD
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: LIST

Q12: Refer to Capture 1. Which is the MAC code for an Netgear network card:

Select one:

  • 00:50:56
  • 00:1f:3c
  • ff:ff:ff
  • 00:15:99
  • 00:18:4d
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 00:18:4d

Q13: Refer to Capture 2. Which is the MAC code for an Samsung network card:

Select one:

  • 00:50:56
  • 00:1f:3c
  • ff:ff:ff
  • 00:15:99
  • 00:18:4d
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 00:15:99

Q14: Refer to Capture 1. For the FTP connection, what is the IP address of the server:

Select one:

  • 192.168.0.1
  • 192.168.75.132
  • 192.168.75.1
  • 84.53.138.25
  • 192.168.0.20
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 192.168.75.132

Q15: Refer to Capture 1. What is the MAC address of the client in the DNS request:

Select one:

  • 00:50:56:c0:00:08
  • 00:18:4d:b0:d6:8c
  • 00:0c:29:0f:71:a3
  • 00:1f:3c:4f:30:1d
  • ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 00:1f:3c:4f:30:1d

Q16: Ref to Capture 1. Which is the successful code initially returned after the connection has been made to the FTP server:

Select one:

  • 215
  • 200
  • 220
  • 331
  • 230
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 220

Q17: Refer to Capture 2. For the www.intel.com lookup, what is the destination port used by the client for the DNS request:

Select one:

  • 25
  • 63227
  • 3655
  • 65000
  • 53
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 53

Q18: Refer to Capture 1. Which FTP command is used to get the system type:

Select one:

  • CWD
  • SYST
  • PASV
  • LIST
  • PWD
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: SYST

Q19: Refer to Capture 2. For the www.intel.com lookup, what is the source port used by the client for the DNS request:

Select one:

  • 25
  • 63227
  • 3655
  • 65000
  • 53
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: 63227

Q20: Refer to Capture 1. Which FTP command is used to change the current directory:

Select one:

  • CWD
  • SYST
  • PASV
  • LIST
  • PWD
Reveal Answer

The correct answer is: CWD