Which of the following types of attack is the analyst seeing?

A security analyst is investigating a call from a user regarding one of the websites receiving a 503: Service Unavailable error. The analyst runs a netstat -an command to discover if the web server is up and listening.

The analyst receives the following output:

TCP 10.1.5.2:80 192.168.2.112:60973 TIME_WAIT

TCP 10.1.5.2:80 192.168.2.112:60974 TIME_WAIT

TCP 10.1.5.2:80 192.168.2.112:60975 TIME_WAIT

TCP 10.1.5.2:80 192.168.2.112:60976 TIME_WAIT

TCP 10.1.5.2:80 192.168.2.112:60977 TIME_WAIT

TCP 10.1.5.2:80 192.168.2.112:60978 TIME_WAIT

Which of the following types of attack is the analyst seeing?
A . Buffer overflow
B . Domain hijacking
C . Denial of service
D . ARP poisoning

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Answer: C