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Daniel is a professional hacker whose aim is to attack a system to steal data and money for profit. He performs hacking to obtain confidential data such as social security numbers, personally identifiable information (PII) of an employee, and credit card information. After obtaining confidential data, he further sells the information on the black market to make money.
Daniel comes under which of the following types of threat actor.

• Industrial spies

• State-sponsored hackers

• Insider threat

• Organized hackers

An attacker instructs bots to use camouflage mechanism to hide his phishing and malware delivery locations in the rapidly changing network of compromised bots. In this particular technique, a single domain name consists of multiple IP addresses.
Which of the following technique is used by the attacker?

• DNS zone transfer

• Dynamic DNS

• DNS interrogation

• Fast-Flux DNS

Kathy wants to ensure that she shares threat intelligence containing sensitive information with the appropriate audience. Hence, she used traffic light protocol (TLP).
Which TLP color would you signify that information should be shared only within a particular community?

• White

• Green

• Amber

• Red

Moses, a threat intelligence analyst at InfoTec Inc., wants to find crucial information about the potential threats the organization is facing by using advanced Google search operators. He wants to identify whether any fake websites are hosted at the similar to the organization’s URL.
Which of the following Google search queries should Moses use?

• related: www.infothech.org

• info: www.infothech.org

• link: www.infothech.org

• cache: www.infothech.org

A team of threat intelligence analysts is performing threat analysis on malware, and each of them has come up with their own theory and evidence to support their theory on a given malware.
Now, to identify the most consistent theory out of all the theories, which of the following analytic processes must threat intelligence manager use?

• Threat modelling

• Application decomposition and analysis (ADA)

• Analysis of competing hypotheses (ACH)

• Automated technical analysis

Miley, an analyst, wants to reduce the amount of collected data and make the storing and sharing process easy. She uses filtering, tagging, and queuing technique to sort out the relevant and structured data from the large amounts of unstructured data.
Which of the following techniques was employed by Miley?

• Sandboxing

• Normalization

• Data visualization

• Convenience sampling

Bob, a threat analyst, works in an organization named TechTop. He was asked to collect intelligence to fulfil the needs and requirements of the Red Tam present within the organization.
Which of the following are the needs of a RedTeam?

• Intelligence related to increased attacks targeting a particular software or operating system vulnerability

• Intelligence on latest vulnerabilities, threat actors, and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)

• Intelligence extracted latest attacks analysis on similar organizations, which includes details about latest threats and TTPs

• Intelligence that reveals risks related to various strategic business decisions

Michael, a threat analyst, works in an organization named TechTop, was asked to conduct a cyber-threat intelligence analysis. After obtaining information regarding threats, he has started analyzing the information and understanding the nature of the threats.
What stage of the cyber-threat intelligence is Michael currently in?

• Unknown unknowns

• Unknowns unknown

• Known unknowns

• Known knowns

Enrage Tech Company hired Enrique, a security analyst, for performing threat intelligence analysis. While performing data collection process, he used a counterintelligence mechanism where a recursive DNS server is employed to perform interserver DNS communication and when a request is generated from any name server to the recursive DNS server, the recursive DNS servers log the responses that are received. Then it replicates the logged data and stores the data in the central database. Using these logs, he analyzed the malicious attempts that took place over DNS infrastructure.
Which of the following cyber counterintelligence (CCI) gathering technique has Enrique used for data collection?

• Data collection through passive DNS monitoring

• Data collection through DNS interrogation

• Data collection through DNS zone transfer

• Data collection through dynamic DNS (DDNS)

John, a professional hacker, is trying to perform APT attack on the target organization network. He gains access to a single system of a target organization and tries to obtain administrative login credentials to gain further access to the systems in the network using various techniques.
What phase of the advanced persistent threat lifecycle is John currently in?

• • Initial intrusion

• • Search and exfiltration

• • Expansion

• • Persistence