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GCIH · Question #837

An organization has an SSH server that was compromised. Given the following evidence, what most likely occurred?

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Question

An organization has an SSH server that was compromised. Given the following evidence, what most likely occurred?

Exhibit

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Options

  • AThe kworker thread was exploited using process injection
  • BThe SSH user account credentials have been compromised
  • CAn attacker uploaded a malicious python library to a well-known repository
  • DAn attacker accessed the system through a backdoor using netcat

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#SSH compromise#netcat backdoor#incident analysis#backdoor detection
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