AuthHost.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Authentication Host for web auth brokers
AuthHost.exe is the 2013th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 302 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by hxaccounts.exe.
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2013th
most commonly executed Windows program
302
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- bb2930598067ccf0a4a0d30da17ae5bbb44639b300a9aa334c4e0857437883b130.27%
- 90eef4a99736e9ec17d8e54918a435b04f132dae116fc90c53ff1a126092988622.45%
- 8a1060a0d9054ad2f428cb56dba525394ff01d45dd6ed2aec7de201d7dbf9cff19.05%
- ea48b4f5787d0941991b17a9a2075cd89f8217cd00260c5283e2a2bf97efac6413.95%
- 7b24c56bd854742a55ccb2210846b71a48ee821b1dfa1ef70918b63da0005a1a7.48%
- 78d7c33adc73827d0c60df89c13d7973a885db106f39b4c641aa8504696438344.42%
- 2c5bc827e896b00cbe73e7b96e2e2b274a60e8232007525a03b013d2429069371.36%
- 6778d42a25b4ab28fa157d9b9eb63dc826c8a6faac650ecb5e33b13954f88db10.68%
- 3663ed060511967946605e43f901c5d6f86222ef1015ec61660e63c6f4d1b2290.34%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Parents
- hxaccounts.exe65.02%
- SearchUI.exe31.35%
- hp.smart.exe0.33%
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