plink.exe
by Simon Tatham
Sources: observed in the EchoTrail lab on Windows 11.
Summary
Command-line SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin client (PuTTY suite, Simon Tatham)
plink.exe is not in the 2025 snapshot. It was observed in EchoTrail's behavior lab on Windows 11 24H2 on 2026-09-10 installed from winget package PuTTY.PuTTY.
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6008th
most commonly executed Windows program
n/a
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\ProgramData\...60%
- C:\Users\...40%
- C:\Program Files\PuTTY
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- f5b70ddbce68230948ff180714a7f882149a6ce43841e7018265cd3a87dd6ece60%
- ca45ec144935f25ddaa1eb7ed5ac557a84bddd19795e190ee250dafe1cfc3b5930%
- 869de34475976c5290e95ab5769888d8a37f76d9bbf234768172f6f12c88721410%
- 8afecc0dc0a87272d302585ff6ced864a1d1f399b54e44cd2b690876452d1d0f
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- javaw.exe100%
Top Parents
Top Children
Lab record
- Installed from
- winget PuTTY.PuTTY 0.84.0.0
- Publisher
- Simon Tatham
- Persistence
- none
- Network
- none
- Command lines
- 1 pattern (1 launch)
- DLL loads
- 17 patterns (17 loads)
- Registry writes
- 2 patterns (2 writes)
- File writes
- 0 patterns (0 writes)
- HTTP requests
- 0 patterns (0 requests)
- TLS connections
- 0 patterns (0 handshakes)
- Named pipes
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Process access
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Driver loads
- 0 patterns (0 loads)
- PowerShell blocks
- 0 patterns (0 blocks)
- Remote threads
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Audit events
- 0 patterns (0 events)
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