cipher.exe
Essential information
- Confidence
- 100/100
- Published
- 16/12/2025 19:37
- Modified
- 27/03/2026 01:07
- Revoked
- No
- Author / Source
- The MITRE Corporation
- Related entities
- 1 attack patterns (mitre), 1 intrusion sets (apt), 1 campaign, 1 campaigns
Description
[cipher.exe](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S1205) is a native Microsoft utility that manages encryption of directories and files on NTFS (New Technology File System) partitions by using the Encrypting File System (EFS).(Citation: cipher.exe)
Marking (TLP)
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