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What protocol is most likely to be listening on ports open in the 135 to 139 range?

Samantha has been actively scanning the client network for which she is doing a vulnerability assessment test. While doing a port scan she notices ports open in the 135 to 139 range. What protocol is most likely to be listening on those ports?

A.
SMB

B.
Finger

C.
FTP

D.
Samba

Explanation:
Port 135 is for RPC and 136-139 is for NetBIOS traffic. SMB is an upper layer service that runs on top of the Session Service and the Datagram service of NetBIOS.


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