psftp.exe
by Simon Tatham
Sources: observed in the EchoTrail lab on Windows 11.
Summary
Command-line interactive SFTP client (PuTTY suite, Simon Tatham)
psftp.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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most commonly executed Windows program
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observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\PuTTY
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- ddcb06cd39aa4f71ffc9569755f10de3b88402f35c1994a14a58542e34744a43
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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