PSEXESVC.exe

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

psexesvc.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.

PSEXESVC.exe is the 6424th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 8 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows and it is most often launched by services.exe.

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6424th
most commonly executed Windows program
8
observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Windows100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 141b2190f51397dbd0dfde0e3904b264c91b6f81febc823ff0c33da980b6994478.95%
  • 1d4d787047200fc7bcbfc03a496cafda8e49075d2fbf2ff7feab90a4fdea8f8918.42%
  • 224f549f33854ed53667055786dc1073e64b7428fae26f27dab9828ed502bb992.63%

Process Ancestry

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