300-215 Question 109
Single answerDuring an incident response investigation, you suspect that a malicious actor has injected a DLL into a critical process on a compromised Windows system. Which tool would be the most appropriate to use for identifying the injected DLL and analyzing the process memory?
- A
Volatility
- B
TCPdump
- C
Sysinternals Suite
- D
SIFT Workstation
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
To identify a malicious DLL injection and analyze process memory, Volatility is the most appropriate tool. It is specifically designed for memory forensics and can extract detailed information about processes, including injected DLLs. Other tools like TCPdump, Sysinternals, or SIFT may be useful for other aspects of an investigation, but they are not suitable for this specific task.
- A. Correct.
Volatility is a memory forensics framework designed to analyze memory dumps and can help in identifying DLL injections and suspicious activities within processes. It is the most appropriate tool for this scenario.
- B. Incorrect.
TCPdump is a network packet analysis tool and is not used for memory or process analysis. It would not assist in identifying injected DLLs in this situation.
- C. Incorrect.
Sysinternals Suite includes tools like Process Explorer and Autoruns, which are useful for real-time process and startup analysis but are not specifically designed for memory dump analysis or identifying DLL injections.
- D. Incorrect.
SIFT Workstation is a collection of forensic tools for incident response and digital forensics, but it does not specialize in memory analysis like Volatility does.