displayswitch.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Display Switch - handles Win+P projection mode switching (PC only, Duplicate, Extend, Second screen only).
displayswitch.exe is the 1193rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,361 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by winlogon.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 8e1484a283ebc8ed5f28970ab2ea5b488c5dca50b93c1209e5b2098552d294b974.65%
- 2c2dda670ee71101b552b97cc7cf7210d825470192cd6b90e90e930b581e40f710.75%
- 3374874744179d8f880791ff4373736d9bb93ae3275be6ff26b296b4d8b9619c6.15%
- 2c968556fcad7ebb9a866b21a9f3f3dfcd0ca490caf8f6b2ecdb423b9d24d3ef2.52%
- 54e05115742cf02f57d92f9908014c8a4f847bb6c2fab77d46514439563853e41.56%
- 8b581f1d15a6920e4ecfe172d8ef753d0a2bf1a47e686a8d5d8e01147fa4c65e1.19%
- 48d65601f501a99c4dbd6ac4501dedcba462e9e38507f089a10a5fea45e512b40.89%
- a5f3500875f4c482bd821b251b6a79e144c021a40e7054d10085619932ff4ff90.52%
- b9670b56312813e437de5afd3154344d418cd37ad2bf6166e3c91f37c44fe49e0.52%
- 8ff4c17dd616ffad67b8d74749d668a5331d581894c877ed304acf57c16fef120.44%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- smss.exe90.17%
- services.exe8.67%
- svchost.exe0.58%
- WUDFHost.exe0.58%
Top Parents
- winlogon.exe98.02%
- svchost.exe1.54%
- explorer.exe0.15%
- RuntimeBroker.exe0.15%
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