CAS-005: CompTIA SecurityX

The captured console output shows an analyst running strings against dbloader.exe and finding the plaintext password "dBl0ad3r!" embedded in the binary, which the attacker then used to authenticate as admin and bypass the intended access control check. Hard-coded credentials in compiled code are a classic finding that strings/reverse-engineering can expose, so the fix is to remove them from the source and use a secure secrets-management mechanism instead. EDR, fuzz testing, and password-change restrictions do not address the root cause of a credential baked into the application itself.