A company has contracted with a network security firm to help identify the vulnerabilities of the corporate network. The firm sends a team to perform penetration tests to the company network. Why would the team use fuzzers?
- to discover security vulnerabilities of a computer
- to detect any evidence of a hack or malware in a computer or network
- to reverse engineer binary files when writing exploits and when analyzing malware
- to detect installed tools within files and directories that provide threat actors remote access and control over a computer or network
Explanation: Fuzzers are specialized penetration testing tools used to discover security vulnerabilities within a computer or application. They operate by providing large amounts of random or unexpected data as input to a system to identify potential weaknesses, crashes, or unintended behaviors that could be exploited by a threat actor. Examples of such tools mentioned in the sources include Skipfish, Wapiti, and W3af.
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