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SC-200 Practice Question: A security analyst is investigating a malware…
A security analyst is investigating a malware incident and has identified a specific parent process ID (PID) on an endpoint. The analyst wants to retrieve all outbound network connections made by any child processes spawned by this parent process. Which advanced hunting table should the analyst query to get the network connection details, including the destination IP and the child process ID?
⚠ Common exam trap
Candidates often confuse DeviceProcessEvents (which shows process ancestry) with DeviceNetworkEvents (which shows actual network flows), mistakenly thinking process creation logs include network details, when in fact you need the network-specific table to retrieve destination IPs and child process IDs.
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DeviceNetworkEvents
DeviceNetworkEvents is the correct table because it specifically captures outbound network connections, including destination IP addresses and process IDs (PID). By filtering on the parent process ID and then joining or filtering on child process IDs, the analyst can trace all network connections initiated by child processes spawned from the identified parent PID.
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DeviceProcessEvents
Why it's wrong here
DeviceProcessEvents logs process creation and termination events, including executable path, command-line arguments, and parent process ID, but it does not record actual outbound network connections or the remote endpoints a process communicates with. In a malware investigation where you need to identify the destination IP or port of malicious traffic, this table alone is insufficient because it lacks network-specific fields like RemoteIP or RemotePort.
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DeviceNetworkEvents
Why this is correct
DeviceNetworkEvents is the correct table because it captures endpoint-level network connections initiated by processes, including the remote IP address, remote port, protocol, and the initiating process ID (and often the process name). By filtering on the compromised device and looking for suspicious outbound activity, you can directly identify the malicious C2 endpoint. This is the dedicated Advanced Hunting schema for network telemetry on devices.
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DeviceEvents
Why it's wrong here
DeviceEvents is a general-purpose event table that covers a wide variety of system activities such as file creation, registry modification, and local process events, but it is not designed to store structured network connection records. Unlike DeviceNetworkEvents, it typically lacks the specialized RemoteIP and RemotePort columns required to map a process to a network destination, so it would not be the primary source for identifying C2 traffic in a malware incident.
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IdentityNetworkEvents
Why it's wrong here
IdentityNetworkEvents contains network activity that is associated with a user identity, such as authentication and network traffic tied to corporate accounts, rather than to a specific process on a specific endpoint. In a malware investigation where you need the initiating process ID and remote IP of a device's outbound connection, this identity-centric table does not provide process-level endpoint telemetry and is therefore not the appropriate data source.
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