smartctl.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
S.M.A.R.T. Control Tool (smartctl.exe) is part of smartmontools. Queries S.M.A.R.T. data from hard drives and SSDs for disk health monitoring, temperature, error rates, and predicted failure.
smartctl.exe is the 176th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 87,743 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\....
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 92923860ee091bb20b3e29bdfd1024e3eb756c2bde3d577b0cda5de268788605100%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Security Analysis
What does smartctl.exe normally do?
Part of disk health monitoring. Runs periodically to check drive status.
How do attackers abuse smartctl.exe?
Not abused.
Detection guidance
No detection needed.
False positive notes
Normal disk monitoring.
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