Central Frost Bank was a medium-sized, regional financial institution in New York. The bank recently deployed a new Internet-accessible Web application. Using this application, Central Frost’s customers could access their account balances, transfer money between accounts, pay bills and conduct online financial business through a Web browser. John Stevens was in charge of information security at Central Frost Bank. After one month in production, the Internet banking application was the subject of several customer complaints. Mysteriously, the account balances ofmany of Central Frost’s customers had been changed! However, moneyhadn’t been removed from the bank. Instead, money was transferred between
accounts. Given this attack profile, John Stevens reviewed the Web application’s logs and found the following entries:
Attempted login of unknown user: johnm
Attempted login of unknown user: susaR
Attempted login of unknown user: sencat
Attempted login of unknown user: pete”;
Attempted login of unknown user: ‘ or 1=1–
Attempted login of unknown user: ‘; drop table logins–
Login of user jason, sessionID= 0x75627578626F6F6B
Login of user daniel, sessionID= 0x98627579539E13BE
Login of user rebecca, sessionID= 0x9062757944CCB811
Login of user mike, sessionID= 0x9062757935FB5C64
Transfer Funds user jason
Pay Bill user mike
Logout of user mike
What type of attack did the Hacker attempt?
A.
Brute force attack in which the Hacker attempted guessing login ID and password from password cracking tools.
B.
The Hacker used a random generator module to pass results to the Web server and exploited Web application CGI vulnerability.
C.
The Hacker attempted SQL Injection technique to gain access to a valid bank login ID.
D.
The Hacker attempted Session hijacking, in which the Hacker opened an account with the bank, then logged in to receive a session ID, guessed the next ID and took over Jason’s session.
Explanation:
The 1=1 or drop table logins are attempts at SQL injection.