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PsExec64.exe

Execute processes remotely file version info

Program on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 4 Sigma rules name it

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Is it the real PsExec64.exe?

file version info and known copies
Original namepsexec.c in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals PsExec, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
DescriptionExecute processes remotely

1 known copy

2.2 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\PsExec64.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

ad6b98c01ee849874e4b4502c3d7853196f6044240d3271e4ab3fc6e3c08e9a4

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 PsExec64.exe
highPotential Defense Evasion Via Rename Of Highly Relevant BinariesMatthew Green - @mgreen27, Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), frack113
mediumPotential Binary Impersonating Sysinternals Toolsfrack113, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)

Sigma names PsExec64.exe in 4 rules in all, for every kind of event; these are the process creation rules CmdID evaluates.