During an enterprise incident response triage, security engineers analyze a compromised domain controller demonstrating unauthorized administrative activity. Diagnostics reveal that the attack payload was injected directly into system RAM using a legitimate administrative utility, executing strictly in volatile memory without writing any standalone binary file to the host hard drive. Which of the following malware classifications best describes this type of threat?
- Fileless malwareCevap
- BSelf-propagating worm
- CTrojan horse
- DLogic bomb
Cevap
Fileless malware
Fileless malware executes directly within volatile system memory (RAM) or piggybacks on legitimate host tools (such as PowerShell or WMI) without writing binary files to the storage drive, making traditional signature-based disk scans ineffective.
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Fileless Malware Execution and Volatile Memory Indicators