Certified Ethical Hacker CEH · Free Practice Question Medium
Question 26
Jennifer decided that the licensing cost for a piece of video editing software was too expensive. Instead, she decided to download a keygen program to generate her own license key and install a pirated version of the editing software. After she runs the keygen, a license key is created, but her system performance becomes very sluggish, and her antimalware suite begins to display numerous alerts. Which type of malware might her computer be infected with?
- A Worm
- B Trojan
- C Adware
- D Logic bomb
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: B
Explanation
OBJ-3.3: A trojan is a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside an apparently harmless program. In this example, the harmless program is the key generator (which does create a license key). It also has malicious code inside it (causing the additional alerts from the antimalware solution). Likely, this keygen has an embedded virus or remote access trojan (RAT) in its programming.Discussion
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