CmdID

CmdID / Files

ADExplorer.exe

Active Directory Editor file version info

Program on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 7 Sigma rules name it

Opens CmdID with your command. It is read in your browser and sent nowhere.

Is it the real ADExplorer.exe?

file version info and known copies
Original nameAdExp in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals ADExplorer, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
DescriptionActive Directory Editor

1 known copy

1.44 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\ADExplorer.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

bb45d8ffe245c361c04cca44d0df6e6bd7596cabd70070ffe0d9f519e3b620ea

From the file’s version info and the copies recorded by xCyclopedia (MIT). A copy in another folder, signed by someone else or with another hash is not necessarily malicious, but it is worth a closer look. In Ceplin, "<sha256>".whatis() says which known copy a hash is.

What detects it

Sigma process creation rules that name ADExplorer.exe
highSuspicious Active Directory Database Snapshot Via ADExplorerNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
mediumActive Directory Database Snapshot Via ADExplorerNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
mediumPotential Binary Impersonating Sysinternals Toolsfrack113, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)

Sigma names ADExplorer.exe in 7 rules in all, for every kind of event; these are the process creation rules CmdID evaluates.