QuestionQ64

Threat Intelligence in Incident Response

Wesley, a professional hacker, deleted a confidential file on a compromised system with the /bin/rm/ command to prevent forensic specialists from accessing it.

Identify the operating system on which Don performed the file-carving activity.

  • A Android
  • B Windows
  • C Linux
  • D Mac OS
Explanation

rm is the standard Unix/Linux utility for removing files, and /bin/rm is a Unix-style absolute executable path. Therefore, the operating system indicated is Linux. GNU Coreutils documents rm as the utility that removes files.

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