CHXSmartScreen.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows SmartScreen check process
CHXSmartScreen.exe is the 2520th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 162 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.AppRep.ChxApp_cw5n1h2txyewy and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.AppRep.ChxApp_cw5n1h2txyewy100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 71928b31c1c37ff4782ce589a42179d928a69021f7c26be9b0677f3ba2d0a85d31.41%
- 87392f52fd2d2a3966bf580fe2cb754ae951242ca57b618f9268216b77ade9da26.28%
- 1a11a7cbebf0d3e638ced38dda8f8735607c48db0a66737953dab0a7e40c8b8114.1%
- c77b870833adce044abb153a59195301198a7d594ca79d634b47433b66430b7b10.9%
- 0e7bd226112b50482292276c0de17e3fd6f1820ff1f3cfc014ed74a04fbc0eeb8.33%
- e32227b3ef1b9fa9674a5d173e2d2ff6a14e377382b50acd597af4b0d075ad986.41%
- 109525ca2f9edc0965874f60a0e6f0e00cafcb76d1deb97da637d48588ac775d1.28%
- 5361e075552716e77cfabd48dbf31e661221e4589937b1d65bc3eecac0685b0a0.64%
- 7cd1c41ee8a196d9014af607fdb063ef54ecaa71a5b631092da8ea147cfe730a0.64%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
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