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Can anyone please tell me the reason behind the randomized alphanumeric characters at the end of service name for some Windows services?
In particular:
CDPUserSvc_xxxxx PimIndexMaintenanceSvc_xxxxx MessagingService_xxxxx OneSyncSvc_xxxxx UserDataSvc_xxxxx UnistoreSvc_xxxxx WpnUserService_xxxxx
Pokopokopoki
Posted 2018-06-21T20:31:00.770
Reputation: 11
Where are you seeing this? – Moab – 2018-06-21T20:53:28.797
2They are not randomized – Ramhound – 2018-06-21T21:24:22.257
I'm trying to ask the significance of the 5 alphanumeric characters that follow the underscore of each of those services - the x's are placeholders for the alphanumeric characters. – Pokopokopoki – 2018-06-22T00:41:51.757
Such as CDPUserSvc_3951d. – Pokopokopoki – 2018-06-22T00:42:30.023
The numbers are different for every different Windows virtual machine I create. On another VM, I am seeing the same service with a different alphanumeric sequence at end of it - CDPUserSvc_33c6b. The other services I mentioned - PimIndexMaintenanceSvc, MessagingService, OneSyncSvc, UserDataSvc, UnistoreSvc, and WpnUserService - will all end with the same alphanumeric sequence. I am just wanting to understand the significance of this alphanumeric sequence. – Pokopokopoki – 2018-06-22T00:48:31.293
The random codes are for security reasons; see the answer of this post: https://superuser.com/questions/1182820/malware-or-strange-windows-services-behaviour
– Mu-Tsun Tsai – 2019-09-17T06:16:44.383