During an incident, the response team identifies a file hash that is not present in any threat intelligence feed. The team needs to determine if the file is malicious and understand its behavior. The team has limited time and resources. Which approach is most efficient?

Comparing the hash to a list of known benign files.

Waiting for a commercial feed to add the hash to their database.

Submitting the file to a sandbox for dynamic analysis to observe its behavior.

Searching for the hash on public internet forums.

During the containment phase of an incident, the response team needs to block communication to a known malicious IP address. Which action best uses threat intelligence to support containment?

Searching for other occurrences of the IP in threat intelligence feeds.

Sending a sample of the malware to a sandbox for analysis.

Adding the IP address to the firewall blocklist and verifying that the rule is active.

Documenting the IP in the incident report for future reference.

How does threat intelligence support proactive threat hunting?

By providing a list of all vulnerabilities in the organization

By automatically blocking all suspicious traffic

By replacing the need for security monitoring

By providing hypotheses and indicators to search for

An incident responder is analyzing a suspicious email that was flagged by the security team. The email contains a link to a URL. The responder wants to determine if the URL is malicious and if it is related to a known threat actor. Which technique is most effective for enriching this URL indicator?

Submitting the URL to a URL reputation service and performing a web search for the domain to find related threat reports.

Checking the URL against the organization's blocklist.

Opening the URL in a browser to see what the page looks like.

Ignoring the URL because it is not in any threat intelligence feed.

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26expert · medium
During an incident, the response team identifies a file hash that is not present in any threat intelligence feed. The team needs to determine if the file is malicious and understand its behavior. The team has limited time and resources. Which approach is most efficient?
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27application · medium
During the containment phase of an incident, the response team needs to block communication to a known malicious IP address. Which action best uses threat intelligence to support containment?
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28foundation · easy
Which stage of the threat intelligence lifecycle is primarily responsible for identifying what intelligence is needed to support incident response decisions?
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How does threat intelligence support proactive threat hunting?
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30expert · medium
An incident responder is analyzing a suspicious email that was flagged by the security team. The email contains a link to a URL. The responder wants to determine if the URL is malicious and if it is related to a known threat actor. Which technique is most effective for enriching this URL indicator?
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