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taskeng.exe

Task Scheduler Engine file version info

Program on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it

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Is it the real taskeng.exe?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\windows\system32\
C:\windows\SysWOW64\
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionTask Scheduler Engine

2 known copies

6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623) · C:\windows\system32\taskeng.exe · not signed

74b9cf472d5008e00735482f084f886eaa201248d6e87ab6b1990e3670bd6693

6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623) · C:\windows\SysWOW64\taskeng.exe · not signed

9137b804681b06e87dfd6f548f9cecfda0da5aa17cbe0e673032ec465168c9f1

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 taskeng.exe
highHackTool - Potential Impacket Lateral Movement ActivityEcco, oscd.community, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, Tim Rauch