Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely responsible for producing the SIEM alerts?

An incident response analyst in a corporate security operations center receives a phone call from an SOC analyst. The SOC analyst explains the help desk recently reimaged a workstation that was suspected of being infected with an unknown type of malware; however, even after reimaging, the host continued to generate SIEM alerts.

Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely responsible for producing the SIEM alerts?
A . Ransomware
B . Logic bomb
C . Rootkit
D . Adware

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Answer: C