CertNexus Exam CFR-310 Topic 5 Question 2 Discussion

A secretary receives an email from a friend with a picture of a kitten in it. The secretary forwards it to the

~COMPANYWIDE mailing list and, shortly thereafter, users across the company receive the following message:

''You seem tense. Take a deep breath and relax!''

The incident response team is activated and opens the picture in a virtual machine to test it. After a short analysis, the following code is found in C:

\Temp\chill.exe:Powershell.exe --Command ''do {(for /L %i in (2,1,254) do shutdown /r /m Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.> /f /t / 0 (/c ''You seem tense. Take a deep breath and relax!'');Start-Sleep --s 900) } while(1)''

Which of the following BEST represents what the attacker was trying to accomplish?