April is noticing in her network monitoring software that an unusual amount of UDP traffic is being sent to ports 1026 and 1027 toward various hosts. He sets up a honeypot by opening a port and listening in case any of this traffic heads in his direction.
A few minutes later he sees text appear on the command console that reads and recognizes this as messenger spam. "Windows has discovered 31 critical errors. The following steps must be taken immediately: [the rest goes on to recommend a download and other destructive suggestions]"
What did April do to receive and view this message?
A) Used Netcat with the command: nc -l -p 1026 -u -v
B) Used Netcat with the command: nc -l -p 31 -u -v
C) Used Windump with the command: windump -l -p 1026 -u -v
D) Sent a message back to the source asking for clarification

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Netcat is the "Swiss army knife" of tools and in this case was used to open a "listener" (-l) of the correct port, expecting udp traffic(-u) and displaying the data received in the console window (-v).

April Is Noticing in Her Network Monitoring Software That an Unusual