CTESPersistence.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
CyberArk CTES persistence component for maintaining credential provider availability
CTESPersistence.exe is the 2013th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 302 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\ProgramData\... and it is most often launched by rpcnet.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\ProgramData\...100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 86c1ac2538effb7702630f4022ca783e19dbd39ec7dcb792c13e307f51a51595100%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- rpcnet.exe55.63%
- svchost.exe44.04%
- Ctes.exe0.33%
Top Children
- conhost.exe33.41%
- cmd.exe33.3%
- Ctes.exe33.3%
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