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?

• Ransomware
• Logic bomb
• Rootkit
• Adware