CmdID

CmdID / Files

CPUSTRES.EXE

CPU Stress file version info

Program on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it

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Is it the real CPUSTRES.EXE?

file version info and known copies
Original nameCPUSTRES in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals CPUSTRES, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
DescriptionCPU Stress

1 known copy

1.0.0.0 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\CPUSTRES.EXE · signed by Microsoft Corporation

5497724e096b66788e284bc2c90f480a1dc8b79eab6b616f7f5615f62a651519

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 CPUSTRES.EXE
mediumPotential Binary Impersonating Sysinternals Toolsfrack113, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)