Veritas
F005MEDIUMConfirmed maliciousvalidator: passed

PsExecSvc service persistence and lateral movement infrastructure

PsExecSvc service, PsExec.exe

Analyst narrative

Registry persistence (HKLM\System\ControlSet001\Services\PsExecSvc and ControlSet002\Services\PsExecSvc) indicates installation of PSEXESVC for remote code execution. Combined with amcache evidence showing PsExec.exe (SHA1: 2013247c1481bb44bbebbb927a153b42e73b499f) executed from staging directory c:\windows\temp\perfmon\PsExec.exe, this represents both persistence (TA0003) and lateral movement infrastructure (TA0008).

Claims asserted

hashPsExec.exe2013247c1481bb44bbebbb927a153b42e73b499fparse_registry_persistenceget_amcache

Proof chain · 1 fact

Every confirmed claim links by foreign key to the typed fact that validated it, and to the forensic tool that produced that fact. This is one finding_trace() query.

file execution factsha1:2013247c1481bb44bbebbb927a153b42e73b499f
get_amcache
Raw tool output · 3a50aa38d43a9b92c571c2602736480c34a30207
{"path": "C:\\Windows\\Temp\\perfmon\\PsExec.exe", "sha1": "2013247c1481bb44bbebbb927a153b42e73b499f", "first_run": "", "publisher": null, "file_size": null}

Source tools

get_amcacheparse_registry_persistence