Ethical Hacking Essentials Practice Test

What tool could be used by an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack over a public Wi-Fi network?

1. Aircrack

2. zANTI

3. Wireshark

4. Burp Suite

The correct answer is: zANTI

The use of zANTI as a tool for performing a man-in-the-middle attack on a public Wi-Fi network is well-founded. zANTI is specifically designed for penetration testing and assessing the security of Wi-Fi networks. One of its features allows an attacker to intercept and manipulate communications between users on the network, effectively placing them in a man-in-the-middle position. This enables the attacker to capture sensitive information such as login credentials or session cookies. While other tools listed can be utilized for various aspects of network security assessment, they do not focus specifically on man-in-the-middle techniques within the same context as zANTI. For instance, Aircrack is primarily used for cracking WEP and WPA/WPA2 encryption keys, making it a tool for securing or breaking Wi-Fi rather than conducting man-in-the-middle attacks. Wireshark, on the other hand, is a network protocol analyzer that captures traffic for analysis but does not actively manipulate that traffic as required for a man-in-the-middle attack. Burp Suite is mostly used for web application security testing and is not applicable to intercepting network traffic in the manner required for a typical man-in-the-middle attack over Wi-Fi. Thus, zANTI stands out because it effectively combines multiple functionalities required to perform