Question

Which protocol would be the target of a cushioning attack?

Answer 1

Cushion attack redirects victims to harmful sites without the use of conventional techniques, such as hidden iframes. Cushioning escapes the web filtration and the security of person can be compromised. Its protocol can easily pass the web filtration test and can cause threat for any person's privacy.

HTTP is the protocol that would be the target of cushioning attack.

Answer 2

HTTP Protocol would be the target of a cushioning attack.

Explanation:

• Cushion attack can also be referred as 302 cushioning. It is used for redirecting the victims to some other malicious sites without using any traditional techniques like external script src tags or any other hidden iFrames, and so on.  

• The attackers primarily use HTTP 302 in order to redirect iFrames to evade the detection by using traditional IDS / IPS signature based engines. This technique had been discussed in the year 2013.