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

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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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