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During a routine review of service restarts, a security analyst observes the following in a server log:



Which of the following is the GREATEST security concern?

  • A. The daemon's binary was changed.
  • B. Four consecutive days of monitoring are skipped in the log.
  • C. The process identifiers for the running service change.
  • D. The PIDs are continuously changing.
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️

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gnnggnnggnng
Highly Voted 2 years, 2 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A. The daemon's binary was changed. The greatest security concern, based on the log entries, is that the daemon's binary has been changed. The entries show that the MD5 hash value of the binary file "ircd.exe" changed from 1FD92EA11890CD4B7A85133FF780EB09 to 90EB29AE33DFA9AA00B16788934801EF between April 18 and April 22. A change in the hash value indicates that the binary file has been altered in some way. This is a red flag for security as it could mean that an attacker has replaced the original binary with a malicious one, or that an otherwise trusted software update was made to introduce a vulnerability. The security analyst should investigate this change further to determine the cause and assess any potential impact.
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TheStudiousPeepz
Most Recent 2 years, 1 month ago
That hash do be changing tho... Answer is A
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db97
2 years, 2 months ago
PIDs can change if they are executed on different days, the timestamps do not belong to the monitoring time but to the date/time when the process was executed. Going with A here due to the most obvious here is that binary file changed somehow because of the difference with the hash.
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2Fish
2 years, 1 month ago
Agree. A is the best answer here.
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