During an internal penetration test against a switched network, you need a single application that can actively perform man-in-the-middle attacks via ARP poisoning and simultaneously display captured clear-text credentials for protocols such as FTP and Telnet. Which sniffing tool provides this integrated functionality?
Ettercap includes built-in modules to launch active ARP poisoning or other man-in-the-middle techniques and, in the same interface, parse and reveal credentials for dozens of clear-text protocols such as FTP, Telnet, POP3, and HTTP. Wireshark and tcpdump are purely passive packet analyzers; they do not generate spoofed ARP traffic and therefore cannot force hosts to send their traffic through the tester's system. Nmap focuses on host discovery, port scanning, and vulnerability enumeration, not packet interception or credential extraction. Therefore, Ettercap is the only choice that meets both requirements in one tool.
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