Question 340
The SOC finds PsExec-like service creation on multiple endpoints under an unknown account. Which response best meets the security operations requirement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Remote service execution combined with suspicious account activity can indicate credential abuse. This directly addresses the requirement to examine suspicious remote service deployment.
Incorrect Answers
Identity correlation can reveal movement hidden from a simple network topology view. This addresses trace identity-mediated lateral movement; it does not directly satisfy examine suspicious remote service deployment.
Multihost evidence reveals sequential movement that individual alerts cannot describe. Its intended use is to reconstruct a multihop intrusion path, whereas this case requires the analyst to examine suspicious remote service deployment.
Authorized remote administration can share observable artifacts with attacker movement. That action focuses on distinguish scheduled administration from lateral movement rather than the specified need to examine suspicious remote service deployment.






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