certsrv.exe

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

Microsoft® Certificate Service

certsrv.exe is the 4646th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 22 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.

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4646th
most commonly executed Windows program
22
observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Windows\System32100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • bd411316de52cff49a668fff4b1fd13ea40cd8bb8cd0467fd6f639ae8dc1e35459.09%
  • 8f0e9ee56fb4e18b6a3bd6a115126703ac31effc6017dd1c0ab9b4349419895727.27%
  • db9afb2f53f89de220ad0479f11a31a554310d903d2e4d38b707bc56a08752a19.09%
  • 0eb5fddd3e8d3afc5bd6ab0444c61f21820a179ca6adba00be0abdd9ab1738494.55%

Process Ancestry

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