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pspasswd64.exe

Local and remote password changer file version info

Program on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 3 Sigma rules name it

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Is it the real pspasswd64.exe?

file version info and known copies
Original namepspasswd.exe in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals PsPasswd, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
DescriptionLocal and remote password changer

1 known copy

1.24 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\pspasswd64.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

b5a01628e544929e2dff9f7041359d80f037e1e6da8afb97abd6b2b2f67960c4

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 pspasswd64.exe
mediumPotential Binary Impersonating Sysinternals Toolsfrack113, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)

Sigma names pspasswd64.exe in 3 rules in all, for every kind of event; this is the process creation rule CmdID evaluates.