CREST CPTIA - CREST Practitioner Threat Intelligence Analyst
Kim, an analyst, is looking for an intelligence-sharing platform to gather and share threat information from a variety of sources. He wants to use this information to develop security policies to enhance the overall security posture of his organization.
Which of the following sharing platforms should be used by Kim?
Francis is an incident handler and security expert. He works at MorisonTech Solutions based in Sydney, Australia. He was assigned a task to detect phishing/spam mails for the client organization.
Which of the following tools can assist Francis to perform the required task?
Jian is a member of the security team at Trinity, Inc. He was conducting a real-time assessment of system activities in order to acquire threat intelligence feeds. Heacquired feeds from sources like honeynets, P2P monitoring. infrastructure, and application logs.
Which of the following categories of threat intelligence feed was acquired by Jian?
Stanley works as an incident responder at a top MNC based out of Singapore. He was asked to investigate a cybersecurity incident that recently occurred in the company.
While investigating the crime, he collected the evidence from the victim systems. He must present this evidence in a clear and comprehensible manner to the members of
jury so that the evidence explains the facts clearly and further helps in obtaining an expert opinion on the same to confirm the investigation process.
In the above scenario, what is the characteristic of the digital evidence Stanley tried to preserve?
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?
Tyrion, a professional hacker, is targeting an organization to steal confidential information. He wants to perform website footprinting to obtain the following information, which is hidden in the web page header.
Connection status and content type
Accept-ranges and last-modified information
X-powered-by information
Web server in use and its version
Which of the following tools should the Tyrion use to view header content?
Steve works as an analyst in a UK-based firm. He was asked to perform network monitoring to find any evidence of compromise. During the network monitoring, he came to know that there are multiple logins from different locations in a short time span. Moreover, he also observed certain irregular log in patterns from locations where the organization does not have business relations. This resembles that somebody is trying to steal confidential information.
Which of the following key indicators of compromise does this scenario present?
For analyzing the system, the browser data can be used to access various credentials.
Which of the following tools is used to analyze the history data files in Microsoft Edge browser?
Shiela is working at night as an incident handler. During a shift, servers were affected by a massive cyberattack. After she classified and prioritized the incident, she must report the incident, obtain necessary permissions, and perform other incident response functions. What list should she check to notify other responsible personnel?
During the process of threat intelligence analysis, John, a threat analyst, successfully extracted an indication of adversary’s information, such as Modus operandi, tools, communication channels, and forensics evasion strategies used by adversaries.
Identify the type of threat intelligence analysis is performed by John.
