ntdsutil.exe

Summary

Ntdsutil.exe is a command line utility for accessing Windows Active Directory. It is sometimes used maliciously to dump domain passwords. It is the 10,841st most commonly executed Windows program. It typically runs from the path C:\Windows\System32, and is most often launched by cmd.exe.

ntdsutil.exe is the 9809th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 2 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by cmd.exe.

9809th
most commonly executed Windows program
2
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Windows\System32100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 3b5c59054bcdc4f677e770ac6eaf92d8852f34b5044546bdd7de2392a926577e100%

Process Ancestry

Top Parents

Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.

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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.