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As a security consultant for a conglomerate of healthcare services, you suspect that the email client being used by the hospital staff is allowing hackers to send malicious emails to employees.
You have used an analyzing tool and found the following string in a from field in the email header of several suspect emails:
Friendly Guy
You have also found the following in the same header:
[email protected]
In which of the following fields in the header have you MOST likely found this information?
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Envelope from
Display from
SMTP
Received from/by
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Display from
Reason: "Friendly Guy" is the display name and "[email protected]" is the address shown in the From: header (e.g. From: "Friendly Guy" <[email protected]>). That header is easily spoofed. For verification, check the Return-Path/envelope-from and Received headers and use SPF/DKIM/DMARC to detect spoofing.
Reason: "Friendly Guy" is the display name and "[email protected]" is the address shown in the From: header (e.g. From: "Friendly Guy" <[email protected]>). That header is easily spoofed. For verification, check the Return-Path/envelope-from and Received headers and use SPF/DKIM/DMARC to detect spoofing.
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