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PPID Spoofing: It’s Really this Easy to Fake Your Parent

ID: 5e687d03-34df-5011-86e7-f549dd03b378

STIX ID: report--5e687d03-34df-5011-86e7-f549dd03b378

Feed Name: TrustedSec blog

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2025-03-19

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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**Executive Summary:** This blog post provides a technical overview of Parent Process ID (PPID) spoofing on Windows, explaining what the technique is, how it works, why attackers use it to hide process ancestry, how to detect and defend against it, and including C and C# code demonstrations plus reversing notes using Ghidra and dnSpy.

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