CmdID

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whois64.exe

Domain information lookup file version info

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

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Is it the real whois64.exe?

file version info and known copies
Original namewhois.exe in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals Whois, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
DescriptionDomain information lookup

1 known copy

1.21 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\whois64.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

0797b9f6e0281d8f31791d8f92b375d1074ff7c68266f9372ab54f26b9dcdd3c

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 whois64.exe
mediumPotential Binary Impersonating Sysinternals Toolsfrack113, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)