CmdID

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handle.exe

Handle viewer file version info

Program on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 5 Sigma rules name it

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

Is it the real handle.exe?

file version info and known copies
Original nameNthandle.exe in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals Handle, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
DescriptionHandle viewer

1 known copy

4.22 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\handle.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

de960b7ff0c687475aba4852d799bb2bc3ed38b172be1c4f954cba461ae8de1f

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 handle.exe
mediumPotential Binary Impersonating Sysinternals Toolsfrack113, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)

Sigma names handle.exe in 5 rules in all, for every kind of event; this is the process creation rule CmdID evaluates.