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Question
You are responding to an incident involving a Windows server on your company's network. During the investigation you notice that the system downloaded and installed two files, iexplorer.exe and iexplorer.sys. Based on the behavior of the system you suspect that these files are part of a rootkit. If this is the case what is the likely purpose of the .sys file?
Options
- AIt is a configuration file used to open a backdoor
- BIt is a logfile used to collect usernames and passwords
- CIt is a device driver used to load the rootkit
- DIt is an executable used to configure a keylogger
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