dns.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Domain Name System (DNS) Server
dns.exe is the 3023rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 93 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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3023rd
most commonly executed Windows program
93
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 850ba2eb7457c06634515de98f477fd21a3ffb4d6fb5d47d9c1363f4c3956fb329.03%
- 9d8cfea6daa4ffb0ab24d6cfd6a4cb96d5e1032d62b11b3ccb57ce237a1a476011.83%
- 29506367ce66959e4f04f2d4e1731bf459191a48a7df8b5cba3bdfbf94c00bb510.75%
- 387cd1b305306e6646c75cfbfea50acacb0409993afc7287beae57a6a317d5629.68%
- 128dac306016577f44847e257a4349fb023f5ded93f71e03fb67cc322663877f7.53%
- 334c784f6764d4c24814c4aab63e1e7497271a6b0949c462d56c995a1a9234d44.3%
- 968dcc775437c8dadcc477ff2ff0e03007c46d6725609327d436d1d06b2369c94.3%
- e1ec23002e06f4ecd9f16560cf2c298595124757fde4110c5884c242d0e774593.23%
- ed817e76b27a96d718f6430cc186b71d84658e804e63169b9daab49961a115d23.23%
- f15934414c363eb90db01463988b9b58d58a554cfc871c22c52fdc43f2c809213.23%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
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