CmdID

CmdID / Files

pskill.exe

Terminates processes on local or remote systems file version info

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

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

Is it the real pskill.exe?

file version info and known copies
Original namepkill.exe in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals pkill, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
DescriptionTerminates processes on local or remote systems

1 known copy

1.16 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\pskill.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

546ec58d0134ea64611e12d7e3a867793e8cb6145ac18745349408a60fc2fabe

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