You are an IT security consultant working on a six month contract with a large energy company based in Kansas City. The energy company has asked you to perform DoS attacks against its branch offices to see if their configurations and network hardening can handle the load. To perform this attack, you craft UDP packets that you know are too large for the routers and switches to handle. You also put confusing offset values in the second and later fragments to confuse thenetwork if it tries to break up the large packets. What type of attack are yougoing to attempt on the company’s network?
A.
You are going to attempt a teardrop attack to see if their network can handle the packets.
B.
This type of attack is referred to as a Ping of Death attack since the packets use confusing offset values.
C.
By changing the characteristics of the UDP packets in this manner, you are trying to use a Smurf attack against the company’s network.
D.
This attack is called a SYN attack since the UDP packets are manipulated.
I choose A