QuestionQ237

Secure Software Testing

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker and is assigned a project to test the security of www.we-are-secure.com. You have searched all open ports on the we-are-secure server. Now, you want to carry out the next information-gathering step: passive OS fingerprinting. Which of the following tools can you use to accomplish this task?

  • A Superscan
  • B NBTscan
  • C Nmap
  • D P0f
Explanation

P0f performs passive OS fingerprinting by analyzing observed TCP/IP packet characteristics to infer a remote host’s operating system without sending active OS-detection probes.

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