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CS0-003 · Question #569

A user is flagged for consistently consuming a high volume of network bandwidth over the past week. During the investigation, the security analyst finds traffic to the following websites: Which of…

The correct answer is D. grnail.com. The traffic to grnail.com (a likely typo-squatted domain mimicking gmail.com) shows a suspicious pattern: low inbound (1250 bytes) and high outbound (525,984 bytes) data. This suggests potential data exfiltration, which poses a greater security risk than simple high-bandwidth…

Submitted by stefanr· Mar 6, 2026Security operations

Question

A user is flagged for consistently consuming a high volume of network bandwidth over the past week. During the investigation, the security analyst finds traffic to the following websites:

Which of the following data flows should the analyst investigate first?

Exhibit

CS0-003 question #569 exhibit

Options

  • Anetflix.com
  • Byoutube.com
  • Ctiktok.com
  • Dgrnail.com
  • Etranslate.google.com
  • Foffice.com

How the community answered

(36 responses)
  • A
    11% (4)
  • B
    6% (2)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    78% (28)
  • E
    3% (1)

Explanation

The traffic to grnail.com (a likely typo-squatted domain mimicking gmail.com) shows a suspicious pattern: low inbound (1250 bytes) and high outbound (525,984 bytes) data. This suggests potential data exfiltration, which poses a greater security risk than simple high-bandwidth media

Topics

#Network traffic analysis#Typosquatting#Phishing#Malware

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