OSCP Password Attacks

Question 1

Which tool is primarily used for offline password hash cracking with GPU acceleration?

Accepted Answer

Hashcat

Answer

John the Ripper

Answer

Hydra

Answer

Medusa

Question 2

Which file on a Linux system stores hashed user passwords when shadow password support is enabled?

Accepted Answer

/etc/shadow

Answer

/etc/passwd

Answer

/etc/security/passwd

Answer

/etc/login.defs

Question 3

What Hashcat attack mode (-a) performs a straight dictionary attack using a wordlist without modifications?

Accepted Answer

-a 0

Answer

-a 1

Answer

-a 3

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-a 6

Question 4

Which tool is commonly used for online brute force attacks against SSH, FTP, and HTTP services?

Accepted Answer

Hydra

Answer

Hashcat

Answer

John the Ripper

Answer

Mimikatz

Question 5

What is a rainbow table attack?

Accepted Answer

A precomputed lookup table used to reverse cryptographic hash functions

Answer

An attack using signal interference to disrupt wireless authentication

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A multi-vector attack combining network and application exploits

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An attack that rotates through multiple wordlists simultaneously

Question 6

Which Windows file contains local user account password hashes?

Accepted Answer

SAM

Answer

NTDS.dit

Answer

SYSTEM

Answer

SECURITY

Question 7

Which type of attack tries every possible character combination systematically until the correct password is found?

Accepted Answer

Brute force attack

Answer

Dictionary attack

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Rule-based attack

Answer

Credential stuffing