Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

Web-server attack methodology moves from identifying the platform (fingerprinting) to enumerating the server for misconfigurations such as public status pages, sample scripts, directory indexing, or vulnerable modules. This reconnaissance provides concrete evidence of weaknesses and often reveals a precise attack surface. Jumping straight to denial-of-service, credential brute-forcing, or patching skips a critical discovery phase and either creates excessive noise or is outside the attacker's objective. Therefore, systematically enumerating directories, modules, and sample content is the correct next step.