sysprep.exe
System Preparation Tool file version info
Program on Windows 10 known copies with hashes 2 Sigma rules name it
Is it the real sysprep.exe?
C:\Windows\system32\Sysprep\10 known copies
10.0.22000.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\WINDOWS\system32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
c12408b6fd84cd48cf9b940edbe145ae9230afedb54a9288b34dd6836d0b2bab10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
13d75313a9c011214f7c62ef659e441abe4c80d5f85ff559c0abcfdb36c44f1010.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
3588bfebe1d297ee8c240a27413699a1e845436535cdd654a1b7b9d7a96b6d7210.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
5e65918023add10e63533950f9914bfc09f5eaf46d28ccc73cce833b1725a49810.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
c723d7dcb559386d16be57498185fcf17ff8f68ff952f4add84cef6ecb58d67210.0.18362.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\WINDOWS\system32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
a03a0d2c47163ee59eccff492bfa40367473b907065eedcfc36eb5d94d9f78ae10.0.17763.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
71ef84a9a310e34483ce3d40d805743f2d59de1d3adad3f1639a6cfdaae08efd10.0.17763.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
f5cfd1631d2dfe7c2e4bac631374cc793179c1d3757801b4bca9c77e9a3fcfbb10.0.14393.0 (rs1_release.160715-1616) · C:\Windows\system32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
b63d4e3aa65ee9d70a88c21e4ffb0476c0dcd1bd058e0dd44f8202aff4d543b56.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623) · C:\windows\system32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe · not signed
651e0b5e530e8058d27b7784f89c7839476c5342b0ae3abf85981b6c2d0f4080From 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 names sysprep.exe in 2 rules in all, for every kind of event; this is the process creation rule CmdID evaluates.