CmdID

CmdID / Files

psshutdown.exe

Shutdown, logoff and power manage local and remote systems file version info

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

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Is it the real psshutdown.exe?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals PsShutdown, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
DescriptionShutdown, logoff and power manage local and remote systems

1 known copy

2.52 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\psshutdown.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

66885c2b1773a6d02c3937e67b94b786fc64af17a7e8bad050be5149092a0117

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