Ceplin Command Identifier

Identifier / Programs / Windows

printbrm.exe

Print BRM command line tool file version info (xCyclopedia)

LOLBAS Download, ADS 1 Sigma rule name it 2 ATT&CK techniques 2 documented commands 6 known copies with hashes

Opens the identifier with your command. It is read in your browser and sent nowhere.

How printbrm.exe is abused

documented by LOLBAS

Download T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

-b
-d
-f

ADS T1564.004 Hide Artifacts: NTFS File Attributes

-r
-f
-d

Each abuse is LOLBAS's category and the options and words it uses; the full write-up is on LOLBAS's page for printbrm.exe.

2 documented commands

from LOLBAS, each read by the identifier

Download T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer User privileges

Create a ZIP file from a folder in a remote drive

PrintBrm -b -d {PATH_SMB:folder} -f {PATH_ABSOLUTE:.zip}
Identify

Trips 1 Sigma rule: highPrintBrm ZIP Creation of Extraction by frack113

ADS T1564.004 Hide Artifacts: NTFS File Attributes User privileges

Extract the contents of a ZIP file stored in an Alternate Data Stream (ADS) and store it in a folder

PrintBrm -r -f {PATH_ABSOLUTE}:hidden.zip -d {PATH_ABSOLUTE:folder}
Identify

Trips 1 Sigma rule: highPrintBrm ZIP Creation of Extraction by frack113

All 2 commands the identifier reads trip a Sigma process-creation rule. These commands and their descriptions are from LOLBAS’s entry for printbrm.exe, by Elliot Killick, 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 printbrm.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

Sigma process creation rules
T1105Ingress Tool Transfer
T1564.004Hide Artifacts: NTFS File Attributes

Is it the real printbrm.exe?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\spool\tools\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionPrint BRM command line tool

6 known copies

10.0.22000.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\tools\PrintBrm.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows

dc41e345bd86205664b30491185602052699af445263e9da4f9f6838871eddfa

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\spool\tools\PrintBrm.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows

3f6e33095973f37e7dfd51d511f116f37d92ecd0383bafd7fc0e76f37f3d0531

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\spool\tools\PrintBrm.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows

68dfb48a2a78893ffdcd8d02d24dc8bbf95699857da95862b034e6eb885b6ef2

10.0.18362.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\tools\PrintBrm.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows

690782126961316f81720bec4ea9e160c8fde2837b468487a41ba27568f11207

10.0.17763.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\spool\tools\PrintBrm.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows

71b5f4aa8d12dd4b7982b2d5607cb9b5f40c7e7676dc36f2aeeb482561117251

10.0.14393.0 (rs1_release.160715-1616) · C:\Windows\system32\spool\tools\PrintBrm.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows

1fe86d2c761b0cf8de373875d225ccc1b1d9364f284e581bde8bd16b146e03f4

From 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.