Windows

Installutil.exeInstallutil.exe

Platform
Windows
Abuse functions
3
Mapped techniques
2

Description

Installutil.exe is a Windows living-off-the-land binary catalogued by the LOLBAS Project. Documented abuse functions: AWL Bypass, Execute, Download. Mapped ATT&CK techniques (per LOLBAS / GTFOBins → MITRE crosswalk): T1105, T1218. Defenders should monitor execution of Installutil.exe under non-administrative or sudo contexts and alert when its arguments match the abuse-function signatures.

Abuse functions· 3

AWL BypassT1218.004

Use to execute code and bypass application whitelisting

ExecuteT1218.004

Use to execute code and bypass application whitelisting

DownloadT1105

Downloads payload from remote server

MITRE ATT&CK techniques· 2

T1218.004T1105

Uses2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
TechniqueIngress Tool Transfert1105100%live
SubTechniqueInstallUtilt1218.004100%live

Abuses2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
TechniqueIngress Tool Transfert110585%live
TechniqueSystem Binary Proxy Executiont121885%live

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

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Sourced from LOLBAS Project. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, SQUR.