cmd
Essential information
- Confidence
- 100/100
- Published
- 31/05/2017 23:33
- Modified
- 27/03/2026 01:07
- Revoked
- No
- Author / Source
- The MITRE Corporation
- Related entities
- 6 attack patterns (mitre), 6 intrusion sets (apt), 1 campaign, 1 reports, 1 campaigns
Aliases
cmd.exe
Description
[cmd](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0106) is the Windows command-line interpreter that can be used to interact with systems and execute other processes and utilities. (Citation: TechNet Cmd)
Cmd.exe contains native functionality to perform many operations to interact with the system, including listing files in a directory (e.g., `dir` (Citation: TechNet Dir)), deleting files (e.g., `del` (Citation: TechNet Del)), and copying files (e.g., `copy` (Citation: TechNet Copy)).
Marking (TLP)
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