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SOC Analyst

Malware Analysis

Penetration Testing

Demo question 1 of 3 · silent mode

SOC AnalystDifficulty: 3/5

A new zero-day vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. You don't have signatures yet. The threat intel only describes the behavior: "spawns cmd.exe from the vulnerable application, downloads a file via certutil, then executes it." Your AV vendor says they'll have signatures in 24-48 hours. What can you do NOW to detect this attack?

Zero-day response with no vendor signatures available.

Pause and answer it out loud or in your head.

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