CmdID

CmdID / Files

strings.exe

Search for ANSI and Unicode strings in binary images. file version info

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

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Is it the real strings.exe?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals Strings, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
DescriptionSearch for ANSI and Unicode strings in binary images.

1 known copy

2.53 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\strings.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

8ef3019ace33ad1c54004bf00538266f8bc4595275db89b1484db352c770a67f

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