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telnet.exe

Microsoft Telnet Client file version info

Program on Windows 2 known copies with hashes

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Is it the real telnet.exe?

file version info and known copies
Original nametelnetc.exe in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionMicrosoft Telnet Client

2 known copies

10.0.17763.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\telnet.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows

abe72a168c332e2fcb493e85290744e7153ecd109a0b5ffd7fabbaac339c673a

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

7a1c7d7b5c77789106ea4ffd398a132825c6c97b69957d76719ff64b34628df9

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.