splunk-admon.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Splunk Active Directory Monitor - collects AD change events for the Splunk Universal Forwarder.
splunk-admon.exe is the 272nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 43,626 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin and it is most often launched by splunkd.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin75.58%
- C:\Program Files\SUFwd\bin22.87%
- C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin1.56%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- d191f6bd4fa09b0b80211e794e9b35353ed1a9aa2c3c9cd30767b7ba87dfb96593.63%
- 1975b03b41c2278f96226c5888c63edb29390f1f960751519ca9af2037a9c5926.37%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- splunkd.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.exe100%
Security Analysis
What does splunk-admon.exe normally do?
Helper process of the Splunk Universal Forwarder. Collects specific data types (AD, network, registry, event logs) and passes them to splunkd.exe for forwarding.
When is splunk-admon.exe suspicious?
Running without a Splunk installation. Running from unexpected paths. Parent other than splunkd.exe.
False positive notes
Normal in environments with Splunk Universal Forwarder deployed.
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