bitsadmin.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
The BITS administration utility allows you to create jobs and monitor the progress of those jobs.
bitsadmin.exe is the 3817th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 41 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by sdiagnhost.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- e1057a20945bce8f00c0be5e3db40c4a98ab33f42f4d2df919aedb0ef6651d6e42.5%
- 3375272da344cde1644afadc1f7fc880a00d7f2c48885776650a299e98f1dcd130%
- 7c2365b752f8d2708c737bc34260d5f3d1568fdd2e12892d3ca3e4952add023010%
- 1adecd9049ffd027f5b709866725a5ae1b22497dd89ee86b68698167cbd100d57.5%
- 03c7e317e277bbd6c9c1159f8718a9d302e6f78e0d80c09d52a994b7598c0f305%
- 739b2dd012ea183895cc01116906f339c9aa1c0baabf6f22c8e59e25a0c129172.5%
- eaae8536d554d0e86d8540a8b34db2649bd884843f389495d0b6e91636c6cf542.5%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe92.31%
- explorer.exe7.69%
Top Parents
- sdiagnhost.exe82.93%
- cmd.exe14.63%
- powershell.exe2.44%
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