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An ethical hacker is using some tools to gather information that discloses the network infrastructure of a company without alerting the IDS/IPS. What type of reconnaissance attack the ethical hacker is conducting?
Social Engineering
Internet Reconnaissance
Site (Physical) Reconnaissance;
IP/Network Reconnaissance
DNS Reconnaissance
DNS reconnaissance is part of the information gathering stage on a penetration test engagement.When a penetration tester is performing a DNS reconnaissance is trying to obtain as much as information as he can regarding the DNS servers and their records.The information that can be gathered it can disclose the network infrastructure of the company without alerting the IDS/IPS. This is due that most of the organizations are not monitoring their DNS server traffic and those that do they only monitor the zone transfers attempts.
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