Question 240
An analyst has a high-confidence malicious SHA256 from an approved feed and wants to compare it with endpoint telemetry. Which response best meets the security operations requirement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Exact hash matching connects external intelligence to locally observed files. This directly addresses the requirement to hunt for observed malicious file hashes.
Incorrect Answers
Intelligence confidence and local evidence together inform threat priority. This addresses avoid treating uncorroborated IOC as compromise; it does not directly satisfy hunt for observed malicious file hashes.
Time-aware indicator management limits incorrect matches to recycled infrastructure. Its intended use is to maintain current threat indicator state, whereas this case requires the analyst to hunt for observed malicious file hashes.
Matching requires compatible observable representations and field mappings. That action focuses on repair failed IOC-to-event correlation rather than the specified need to hunt for observed malicious file hashes.






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