A security analyst observes the following events in the logs of an employee workstation:Given the information provided, which of the following MOST likely occurred on the workstation?

Question 88 of 730 from exam SY0-601: CompTIA Security+

Prev Question Next Question

Question

A security analyst observes the following events in the logs of an employee workstation:

$1/23 1:07:16 865 Access to C:\Users\user\temp\oasdfkh.hta has been restricted by your administrator by the default restriction policy level. 1/23 1:07:09 1034 The scan completed. No detections were found. The security analyst reviews the file system and observes the following: C:>dir CA Users\user\temp 1/23 1:07:02 oasdfkh.hta brea 02 update. bat 1/23 1:07:02 msg.txt$

Given the information provided, which of the following MOST likely occurred on the workstation?

Answers

A. Application whitelisting controls blocked an exploit payload from executing.

B. Antivirus software found and quarantined three malware files.

C. Automatic updates were initiated but failed because they had not been approved.

D. The SIEM log agent was not tuned properly and reported a false positive.

Show Answer

Explanations

Click on the arrows to vote for the correct answer

A. B. C. D.

Prev Question Next Question