For analyzing the system, the browser data can be used to access various credentials.
Which of the following tools is used to analyze the history data files in Microsoft Edge browser?
In which of the following types of insider threats an insider who is uneducated on
potential security threats or simply bypasses general security procedures to meet
workplace efficiency?
Employee monitoring tools are mostly used by employers to find which of the following?
Which of the following tools helps incident responders effectively contain a potential cloud security incident and gather required forensic evidence?
Kim, an analyst, is looking for an intelligence-sharing platform to gather and share threat information from a variety of sources. He wants to use this information to develop security policies to enhance the overall security posture of his organization.
Which of the following sharing platforms should be used by Kim?
Sam received an alert through an email monitoring tool indicating that their company was targeted by a phishing attack. After analyzing the incident, Sam identified that most of the targets of the attack are high-profile executives of the company. What type of phishing attack is this?
During the process of detecting and containing malicious emails, incident responders
should examine the originating IP address of the emails.
The steps to examine the originating IP address are as follow:
1. Search for the IP in the WHOIS database
2. Open the email to trace and find its header
3. Collect the IP address of the sender from the header of the received mail
4. Look for the geographic address of the sender in the WHOIS database
Identify the correct sequence of steps to be performed by the incident responders to
examine originating IP address of the emails.
Miley, an analyst, wants to reduce the amount of collected data and make the storing and sharing process easy. She uses filtering, tagging, and queuing technique to sort out the relevant and structured data from the large amounts of unstructured data.
Which of the following techniques was employed by Miley?
Richard is analyzing a corporate network. After an alert in the network’s IPS. he identified that all the servers are sending huge amounts of traffic to the website abc.xyz. What type of information security attack vectors have affected the network?
Michael is a part of the computer incident response team of a company. One of his responsibilities is to handle email incidents. The company receives an email from an unknown source, and one of the steps that he needs to take is to check the validity of the email. Which of the following tools should he use?
Walter and Sons Company has faced major cyber attacks and lost confidential data. The company has decided to concentrate more on the security rather than other resources. Therefore, they hired Alice, a threat analyst, to perform data analysis. Alice was asked to perform qualitative data analysis to extract useful information from collected bulk data.
Which of the following techniques will help Alice to perform qualitative data analysis?
Which of the following types of threat attribution deals with the identification of the specific person, society, or a country sponsoring a well-planned and executed intrusion or attack over its target?
Bob, an incident responder at CyberTech Solutions, is investigating a cybercrime attack occurred in the client company. He acquired the evidence data, preserved it, and started
performing analysis on acquired evidentiary data to identify the source of the crime and the culprit behind the incident.
Identify the forensic investigation phase in which Bob is currently in.
Francis is an incident handler and security expert. He works at MorisonTech Solutions based in Sydney, Australia. He was assigned a task to detect phishing/spam mails for the client organization.
Which of the following tools can assist Francis to perform the required task?
QualTech Solutions is a leading security services enterprise. Dickson, who works as an incident responder with this firm, is performing a vulnerability assessment to identify the security problems in the network by using automated tools for identifying the hosts, services, and vulnerabilities in the enterprise network. In the above scenario, which of the following types of vulnerability assessment is Dickson performing?
Ren is assigned to handle a security incident of an organization. He is tasked with forensics investigation to find the evidence needed by the management. Which of the following steps falls under the investigation phase of the computer forensics investigation process?
Lizzy, an analyst, wants to recognize the level of risks to the organization so as to plan countermeasures against cyber attacks. She used a threat modelling methodology where she performed the following stages:
Stage 1: Build asset-based threat profiles
Stage 2: Identify infrastructure vulnerabilities
Stage 3: Develop security strategy and plans
Which of the following threat modelling methodologies was used by Lizzy in the aforementioned scenario?
An analyst is conducting threat intelligence analysis in a client organization, and during the information gathering process, he gathered information from the publicly available sources and analyzed to obtain a rich useful form of intelligence. The information source that he used is primarily used for national security, law enforcement, and for collecting intelligence required for business or strategic decision making.
Which of the following sources of intelligence did the analyst use to collect information?
ABC is a well-established cyber-security company in the United States. The organization implemented the automation of tasks such as data enrichment and indicator aggregation. They also joined various communities to increase their knowledge about the emerging threats. However, the security teams can only detect and prevent identified threats in a reactive approach.
Based on threat intelligence maturity model, identify the level of ABC to know the stage at which the organization stands with its security and vulnerabilities.
An organization named Sam Morison Inc. decided to use cloud-based services to reduce
the cost of maintenance. The organization identified various risks and threats
associated with cloud service adoption and migrating business-critical data to thirdparty systems. Hence, the organization decided to deploy cloud-based security tools to
prevent upcoming threats.
Which of the following tools help the organization to secure the cloud resources and
services?
Allan performed a reconnaissance attack on his corporate network as part of a red-team activity. He scanned the IP range to find live host IP addresses. What type of technique did he use to exploit the network?
Andrews and Sons Corp. has decided to share threat information among sharing partners. Garry, a threat analyst, working in Andrews and Sons Corp., has asked to follow a trust model necessary to establish trust between sharing partners. In the trust model used by him, the first organization makes use of a body of evidence in a second organization, and the level of trust between two organizations depends on the degree and quality of evidence provided by the first organization.
Which of the following types of trust model is used by Garry to establish the trust?
Rinni is an incident handler and she is performing memory dump analysis.
Which of following tools she can use in order to perform memory dump analysis?
You are talking to a colleague who Is deciding what information they should include in their organization’s logs to help with security auditing. Which of the following items should you tell them to NOT log?
An attack on a network is BEST blocked using which of the following?
Which of the following best describes an email issued as an attack medium, in which several messages are sent to a mailbox to cause overflow?
Eric works as an incident handler at Erinol software systems. He was assigned a task to protect the organization from any kind of DoS/DDoS attacks.
Which of the following tools can be used by Eric to achieve his objective?
Which of the following tools helps incident handlers to view the file system, retrieve deleted data, perform timeline analysis, web artifacts, etc., during an incident response process?
Jason is an incident handler dealing with malware incidents. He was asked to perform memory dump analysis in order to collect the information about the basic functionality of any program. As a part of his assignment, he needs to perform string search analysis to search for the malicious string that could determine harmful actions that a program
can perform. Which of the following string-searching tools Jason needs to use to do the intended task?
Cybersol Technologies initiated a cyber-threat intelligence program with a team of threat intelligence analysts. During the process, the analysts started converting the raw data into useful information by applying various techniques, such as machine-based techniques, and statistical methods.
In which of the following phases of the threat intelligence lifecycle is the threat intelligence team currently working?
Eric is an incident responder and is working on developing incident-handling plans and procedures. As part of this process, he is performing an analysis on the organizational network to generate a report and develop policies based on the acquired results. Which of the following tools will help him in analyzing his network and the related traffic?
Drake is an incident handler in Dark CLoud Inc. He is intended to perform log analysis
in order to detect traces of malicious activities within the network infrastructure.
Which of the following tools Drake must employ in order to view logs in real time and
identify malware propagation within the network?
An XYZ organization hired Mr. Andrews, a threat analyst. In order to identify the threats and mitigate the effect of such threats, Mr. Andrews was asked to perform threat modeling. During the process of threat modeling, he collected important information about the treat actor and characterized the analytic behavior of the adversary that includes technological details, goals, and motives that can be useful in building a strong countermeasure.
What stage of the threat modeling is Mr. Andrews currently in?
Sarah is a security operations center (SOC) analyst working at JW Williams and Sons organization based in Chicago. As a part of security operations, she contacts information providers (sharing partners) for gathering information such as collections of validated and prioritized threat indicators along with a detailed technical analysis of malware samples, botnets, DDoS attack methods, and various other malicious tools. She further used the collected information at the tactical and operational levels.
Sarah obtained the required information from which of the following types of sharing partner?
Joe works as a threat intelligence analyst with Xsecurity Inc. He is assessing the TI program by comparing the project results with the original objectives by reviewing project charter. He is also reviewing the list of expected deliverables to ensure that each of those is delivered to an acceptable level of quality.
Identify the activity that Joe is performing to assess a TI program’s success or failure.
Tibson works as an incident responder for MNC based in Singapore. He is investigating
a web application security incident recently faced by the company. The attack is
performed on a MS SQL Server hosted by the company. In the detection and analysis
phase, he used regular expressions to analyze and detect SQL meta-characters that led
to SQL injection attack.
Identify the regular expression used by Tibson to detect SQL injection attack on MS
SQL Server.
An analyst wants to disseminate the information effectively so that the consumers can acquire and benefit out of the intelligence.
Which of the following criteria must an analyst consider in order to make the intelligence concise, to the point, accurate, and easily understandable and must consist of a right balance between tables, narrative, numbers,
graphics, and multimedia?
Elizabeth, who works for OBC organization as an incident responder, is assessing the risks to the organizational security. As part of the assessment process, she is calculating the probability of a threat source exploiting an existing system vulnerability. Which of the following risk assessment steps is Elizabeth currently in?
A threat analyst obtains an intelligence related to a threat, where the data is sent in the form of a connection request from a remote host to the server. From this data, he obtains only the IP address of the source and destination but no contextual information. While processing this data, he obtains contextual information stating that multiple connection requests from different geo-locations are received by the server within a short time span, and as a result, the server is stressed and gradually its performance has reduced. He further performed analysis on the information based on the past and present experience and concludes the attack experienced by the client organization.
Which of the following attacks is performed on the client organization?
What is the correct sequence of steps involved in scheduling a threat intelligence program?
1. Review the project charter
2. Identify all deliverables
3. Identify the sequence of activities
4. Identify task dependencies
5. Develop the final schedule
6. Estimate duration of each activity
7. Identify and estimate resources for all activities
8. Define all activities
9. Build a work breakdown structure (WBS)
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