TieringEngineService.exe
Storage Tiers Management file version info
Program on Windows 7 known copies with hashes 3 Sigma rules name it
Is it the real TieringEngineService.exe?
C:\Windows\system32\7 known copies
10.0.22000.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\WINDOWS\system32\TieringEngineService.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
c2c6583349324cbfb1e474fdc20d7b9ca11bb3f7b5c04f7ebf395983e6e4746f10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\TieringEngineService.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
2b871b446cd18d9f8461e5e7c56c2fd3530f06fded609b8e5a145348c27cb53f10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\TieringEngineService.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
4ccdb591ee16507879d8f12c0bdd40facbeef03bfc553a84270284d4930b433f10.0.18362.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\WINDOWS\system32\TieringEngineService.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
7abfd8534338904819797a8346c854100334ed79d3915a51b8cf1d3f9f33539310.0.17763.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\TieringEngineService.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
917f104892ff1890be2ab218b99c2dfed8287ab93ea6895ba74090783d4e341c10.0.14393.0 (rs1_release.160715-1616) · C:\Windows\system32\TieringEngineService.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
613247f0e362a109090e8563d977decc50c64d45d6962905fa84a2d59329045c6.3.9600.17396 (winblue_r4.141007-2030) · C:\windows\system32\TieringEngineService.exe · not signed
fd08ac764e086f40a53efc6d531a70aa8c63e608ec52cd7696ff5020d0abc168From 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 TieringEngineService.exe in 3 rules in all, for every kind of event; this is the process creation rule CmdID evaluates.