MicrosoftEdge.exe

Microsoft Edge file version info

Program on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 18 Sigma rules name it

Is it the real MicrosoftEdge.exe?

file version info and known copies

Installed inC:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\
C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\

Signed byMicrosoft Windows

ProductMicrosoft Edge, Microsoft Corporation

DescriptionMicrosoft Edge

1 known copy

11.00.19041.546 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows

e04233f34c27e0de1e3b2a47441f79a93d84638864fc7311f0b6145f31957046

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 MicrosoftEdge.exe

highFile Download with Headless BrowserSreeman, Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)

highMstsc.EXE Execution From Uncommon ParentNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)

highSuspicious PowerShell Parent ProcessTeymur Kheirkhabarov, Harish Segar

Sigma names MicrosoftEdge.exe in 18 rules in all, for every kind of event; these are the process creation rules CmdID evaluates.