PsExec.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
psexec.exe is part of the SysInternals suite of tools developed by Microsoft. It is a lightweight remote administration tool that lets you execute processes on other systems. psexec.exe is the client side executable. On the remote computer, the server component executable is psexesvc.exe.
PsExec.exe is the 3037th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 91 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by cmd.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...34.07%
- C:\Temp\...34.07%
- C:\Users\...28.57%
- C:\Windows\LTSvc3.3%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 3337e3875b05e0bfba69ab926532e3f179e8cfbf162ebb60ce58a0281437a7ef96.7%
- 3b08535b4add194f5661e1131c8e81af373ca322cf669674cf1272095e5cab953.3%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe86.36%
- cmd.exe13.64%
Top Parents
- cmd.exe79.12%
- powershell.exe9.89%
- python.exe8.79%
- 7zFM.exe2.2%
Top Children
- conhost.exe100%
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