A security team receives reports about high latency and complete network unavailability throughout most of the office building. Flow logs from the campus switches show high traffic on TCP 445. Which o

The correct answer is C. Worm. A worm exploiting SMB will flood TCP 445 with propagation traffic, overwhelming the network and causing high latency and outages.

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Question

A security team receives reports about high latency and complete network unavailability throughout most of the office building. Flow logs from the campus switches show high traffic on TCP 445. Which of the following is most likely the root cause of this incident?

Options

ABuffer overflow
BNTP amplification attack
CWorm
DKerberoasting attack

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A
33% (10)
B
13% (4)
C
43% (13)
D
10% (3)

Explanation

A worm exploiting SMB will flood TCP 445 with propagation traffic, overwhelming the network and causing high latency and outages.

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