A security auditor is performing a vulnerability scan to find out if mobile applications used in the organization are secure. The auditor discovers that one application has been accessed remotely with no legitimate account credentials. After investigating, it seems the application has allowed has allowed some users to bypass authentication of that application. Which of the following types of malware allow such a compromise to take place? (Select TWO).
RAT
Ransonware
Worm
Trojan
Backdoor
The answer would be RAT ,i.e. Remote Access Trojan & Backdoor.
Remote Access Trojan, as the name suggests is a malware that controls the system through a remote network connection. Similarly, the Backdoor is a malicious program that allows the attacker to get 'unauthorized' and 'remote access' to a particular system.
On the other hand, Ransomware does not require a remote access. The attacker blocks the victim's data by encrypting the system's files and asks for ransom to decrypt the files back.
A computer worm also does not need a remote access as it has to use a computer network to replicate itself and move from system to system. It can even spread without any human interaction.
Similarly a trojan does not require remote access to function. The trojan virus which does require remote access are already covered in RAT(Remote Access Trojan).
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