A customer requires protections and verdicts for portable executable (PE) and executable and linkable format (ELF), as well as the ability to integrate with existing security tools. Which…

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• ADynamic Unpacking
• BWildFire
• CDNS Security
• DFile Blocking profile

• A
  5% (2)
• B
  71% (29)
• C
  17% (7)
• D
  7% (3)

Explanation

WildFire is Palo Alto Networks' cloud-based malware analysis service specifically designed to analyze PE (Windows executables) and ELF (Linux executables) file formats, delivering verdicts (malicious, benign, grayware, phishing) and sharing protections globally. It also offers an open API that enables integration with third-party and existing security tools - directly satisfying the customer's stated requirements.

Dynamic Unpacking (A) is a WildFire feature, not a standalone CDSS - it helps analyze packed/obfuscated malware within WildFire but cannot be selected as an independent service.

DNS Security (C) focuses on detecting and blocking malicious domains and DNS-based threats; it does not analyze PE/ELF files or issue file verdicts.

File Blocking profile (D) is a firewall policy feature that blocks files by type, but it provides no analysis, verdicts, or integration capabilities - it simply blocks or allows based on file type rules.

Memory tip: Think "WildFire = Wild files get burned" - it analyzes files in an isolated cloud environment and burns (neutralizes) malware across all connected tools via shared threat intelligence.

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