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GAQM CPEH-001 Exam - Topic 2 Question 131 Discussion

The following excerpt is taken from a honeypot log that was hosted at lab.wiretrip.net. Snort reported Unicode attacks from 213.116.251.162. The file Permission Canonicalization vulnerability (UNICODE attack) allows scripts to be run in arbitrary folders that do not normally have the right to run scripts. The attacker tries a Unicode attack and eventually succeeds in displaying boot.ini.He then switches to playing with RDS, via msadcs.dll. The RDS vulnerability allows a malicious user to construct SQL statements that will execute shell commands (such as CMD.EXE) on the IIS server. He does a quick query to discover that the directory exists, and a query to msadcs.dll shows that it is functioning correctly. The attacker makes a RDS query which results in the commands run as shown below:What can you infer from the exploit given?
C) The attack is a remote exploit and the hacker downloads three files.
A) It is a local exploit where the attacker logs in using username johna2k.
B) There are two attackers on the system -- johna2k and haxedj00.
D) The attacker is unsuccessful in spawning a shell as he has specified a high end UDP port.

GAQM CPEH-001 Exam - Topic 2 Question 131 Discussion

Actual exam question for GAQM's CPEH-001 exam
Question #: 131
Topic #: 2
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The following excerpt is taken from a honeypot log that was hosted at lab.wiretrip.net. Snort reported Unicode attacks from 213.116.251.162. The file Permission Canonicalization vulnerability (UNICODE attack) allows scripts to be run in arbitrary folders that do not normally have the right to run scripts. The attacker tries a Unicode attack and eventually succeeds in displaying boot.ini.

He then switches to playing with RDS, via msadcs.dll. The RDS vulnerability allows a malicious user to construct SQL statements that will execute shell commands (such as CMD.EXE) on the IIS server. He does a quick query to discover that the directory exists, and a query to msadcs.dll shows that it is functioning correctly. The attacker makes a RDS query which results in the commands run as shown below:

What can you infer from the exploit given?

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Jordan
11 hours ago
I remember discussing how Unicode attacks can lead to unauthorized access, but I'm not sure if this is a local or remote exploit.
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