A Penetration Tester Is Performing Initial Intelligence Gathering on Some

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A penetration tester is performing initial intelligence gathering on some remote hosts prior to conducting a vulnerability scan. The tester runs the following command: nmap -p 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.3 -sV -o --max-rate 2 192.168.1.130 Which of the following BEST describes why multiple IP addresses are specified?

• A) The network is subnetted as a/25 or greater, and the tester needed to access hosts on two different subnets.
• B) The tester is trying to perform a more stealthy scan by including several bogus addresses.
• C) The scanning machine has several interfaces to balance the scan request across at the specified rate.
• D) A discovery scan is run on the first set of addresses, whereas a deeper, more aggressive scan is run against the latter host.

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