The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. It can also help you check these entries for tampering, which can be one way they go on about establishing persistence. Autoruns goes way beyond other autostart utilities.Īs you can see from the image below, there are many tabs, some of which can be of great value to you.ĭetailed entries about what processes are doing what to the registry (and when), for example, with the option of checking the hashes on VirusTotal, too (see below)įor example, this blog post describes (among other things) how Image Hijack can be …quite sneaky in that the Windows registry has a key to launch a certain process but instead is redirected to launch a different malicious process.Īdversaries are well aware of what they can exploit, and the registry being the db for the Windows OS is a prime target.Īutoruns can help you catch that. Autoruns reports Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more.
These programs and drivers include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys.
This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and when you start various built-in Windows applications like Internet Explorer, Explorer and media players. +Misc tools (everything else in the Sysinternals Suite)įor this article, I’ve picked the most interesting ones (although that may depend on the person) while trying to cover as many categories as possible. Sysinternals offers the following utilities: You can simply do winget install sysinternals Alternatively, you can use winget (Windows Package Manager) and PowerShell to fetch it from the MS Store for you. Today, you can download it from the Microsoft Store by typing in Sysinternals Suite.
However, they are also amply used by threat actors/adversaries, as well as Security personnel (from SOC Analysts to Threat Hunters).Īs the name implies, Sysinternals can help you dig deeper into your Windows hosts. Those little administrative tools can (and will) make your life much easier as a Sysadmin, IT Support Engineer, etc. He is currently the CTO of Microsoft Azure!īehind this amazing story stands an even more amazing bundle of tools. Winternals was then acquired in 2006 by Microsoft, and Mark Russinovich ended up working for them. Russinovich created them under his company name (Winternals) along with the help of his colleague and co-founder Bryce Cogswell. Sysinternals Suite is a bundle of 70+ tools authored by Mark Russinovich back in 1996.
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