xbootmgrsleep.exe

Performance Analyzer Power Transition Performance Testing Utility Helper file version info (xCyclopedia)

LOLBAS Execute 1 ATT&CK technique 1 documented command 1 known copy with hashes

How xbootmgrsleep.exe is abused

documented by LOLBAS

Execute T1202 Indirect Command Execution

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

1 documented command

from LOLBAS, each read by the identifier

Execute T1202 Indirect Command Execution User privileges

Execute executable via XBootMgrSleep, with a 1 second (=1000 milliseconds) delay. Alternatively, it is also possible to replace the delay with any string for immediate execution.

xbootmgrsleep.exe 1000 {PATH:.exe}

Identify

The command the identifier reads trips no Sigma process-creation rule. These commands and their descriptions are from LOLBAS’s entry for xbootmgrsleep.exe, by Avihay Eldad, 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 xbootmgrsleep.exe. The identifier reads it 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

T1202Indirect Command Execution

Is it the real xbootmgrsleep.exe?

file version info and known copies

Installed inC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\

Signed byMicrosoft Corporation

ProductMicrosoft Windows Performance Analyzer, Microsoft Corporation

DescriptionPerformance Analyzer Power Transition Performance Testing Utility Helper

1 known copy

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\xbootmgrsleep.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

4c384d9306ad151e56f55ba41220c4d709f61a589ee19c322d91a17a2632b218

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.