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Question:
You are responsible for incident response at Acme Corporation. You have found that someone has been able to circumvent the Windows authentication process for a specific network application. It emerges that the attacker took the stored hash of the password and sent it directly to the backend authentication service, bypassing the application. Which of the following types of attack is this?
A
Pass the hash.
explanation
Using a pass-the-hash attack requires attackers to acquire a legitimate hash, and then present it to a server or service. A real hash was provided; it was not spoofed. An evil twin is a wireless attack. Shimming is inserting malicious code between an application and a library.
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