A security analyst receives an alert regarding an obfuscated command executing on a workstation assigned to an executive assistant. Traditional signature-based antivirus software on the host reported no malicious findings because the command payload was executed directly in memory without writing a file to the disk. However, the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agent flagged the activity and blocked execution based on the anomalous process relationship where a word processing application spawned an encoded shell interpreter. Which EDR capability enabled the detection and intervention in this scenario?
- Behavioral anomaly detection and process lineage trackingCevap
- BStatic signature matching against a centralized file hash repository
- CInbound perimeter firewall packet inspection and domain filtering
- DAutomated patch management and vulnerability scanning
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Behavioral anomaly detection and process lineage tracking enabled the EDR agent to detect and prevent the fileless memory execution.
The correct answer highlights behavioral anomaly detection and process lineage tracking. EDR solutions continuously record endpoint telemetry, including process trees, memory allocations, and command-line arguments. This allows EDR to identify suspicious behavior—such as a word processor spawning a command-line interpreter—even when no known malicious file signature exists.
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