🧰 sc.exe

The items that name it 4

• Defence Impairment Olympics
  writeup2026-06-29

  Service control utility used by the threat actor to stop and delete security/logging services

• Trial, Error & Typos: Malware Isn't Always 'Sophisticated' | Huntress
  writeup2025-12-22It is written here as sc.exe (Service Control Manager).

  Used to create persistence by installing dllhost.exe as a Windows service named WindowsUpdate.

• PrivEsc: Abusing the Service Control Manager for Stealthy & Persistent LPE
  writeup2023-02-27

  Windows Service Control command-line tool used to run sdset (modify service DACL), sdshow (display security descriptor), and create (create a malicious service) for the attack

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Synametrics' Synaman
  writeup2022-04-05

  Windows command-line tool used to query service configuration (sc.exe qc SynaMan)