hkcmd.exe
by Intel
Driver/Hardware
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Intel Graphics Hotkey command module
hkcmd.exe is the 1367th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 915 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
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1367th
most commonly executed Windows program
915
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 57aab030eef6e1cafd304969d762890c779822f8d9660d44829e86fb7a75cc2130.25%
- ba8fa7dcfad8396c7a2db583ff6118361f959040837215fd5198d8d0a4d7e9b622.37%
- 94193898bc2c150c375a2d0be51d5704c75ad58487eb5fa4e5a638aa657f54c919.29%
- 80a8c6a376c61658aad52502b939e12e2b375fd52850582f059f826c58a8d1e918.72%
- 765d94dacfbf11a303e15bf96396546f76b04f673b6bb987a5c45104459e82cd2.85%
- 17183695d4c06015d68e26199ff0fcb3aefb0b5be80b08f9158fed4f3ff4f8fa2.17%
- ab258e60f45545afc175fcc03f9c559c0ae33f491d2c23675d13b614860709ed1.83%
- a17d7a56627ecbe7d23e634a9e726ba2e3682a7eb75659ae68a426ff2954c7171.48%
- f9a55421e1f2b3690d9e42df3c34250bde889a98c3c6ed200109c0ba9e9421f70.57%
- ecc60baa7d21ef97cda17f45277fbfe52b2169155ddb157e34a7ae2ec1bec1850.23%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe99.86%
- explorer.exe0.14%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe99.89%
- igfxpers.exe0.11%
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