Which of the following is the FIRST step the analyst should take?

A cyber-incident response analyst is investigating a suspected cryptocurrency miner on a company’s server.

Which of the following is the FIRST step the analyst should take?
A . Create a full disk image of the server’s hard drive to look for the file containing the malware.
B . Run a manual antivirus scan on the machine to look for known malicious software.
C . Take a memory snapshot of the machine to capture volatile information stored in memory.
D . Start packet capturing to look for traffic that could be indicative of command and control from the miner.

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Answer: D