pyw.exe
Python file version info
Program on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it
Is it the real pyw.exe?
Original name
py.exe in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries itInstalled in
C:\Windows\Signed byPython Software Foundation
ProductPython, Python Software Foundation
DescriptionPython
2 known copies
3.10.0 · C:\Windows\pyw.exe · signed by Python Software Foundation
00ee8ac047da54994b169cc5c6c0f9c1fade2b169ae002ae59aabea3f1d7ff193.8.5 · C:\Windows\pyw.exe · signed by Python Software Foundation
4b0d7037a9f4d890593d88b7af84e6ae52bca8bc746a91132a1096881610c80cFrom 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
highWindows Suspicious Child Process from Node.js - React2ShellSwachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali