hpqwmiex.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
HP WMI Extensions - extends WMI with HP-specific hardware management data.
hpqwmiex.exe is the 1307th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,033 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Hewlett-Packard\Shared and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Hewlett-Packard\Shared56.73%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\Shared41.24%
- C:\Users\...2.03%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1b32ee143bfe2eab78bde4b97e709f3137d91916204c351c09e8d697806c7d8930.02%
- 4b66b90cfec2231b905b21decc4ec7c6500e546f080a452ef67e724edf37add916.76%
- 91d35bedeaefa32f8b6a31318e70b954cfa1afa74d02e3918fef8135c82c57b316.67%
- f2dabcfae298aa372d6892a1529c246fb0b3f60e6be4be9ea3cfcaa89094c2249.45%
- e4972e8ddb31e0b9c3d08678c809b783a099f462af56a19754438d2793abd2d68.28%
- 145206d5e6c6e408aeebde4232a35fad1eecd7873f3fab673173f0e26a1e240f5.95%
- 2de0a9150cf00b6564b1e77e5e6c2e31d3c6df35c2d368d64e84821d756833d95.36%
- 85873ae77656a7aec78cda68bf72a7fa0a0becbc7531d70bc0925c77dc16690e4.19%
- 94750e91a0215735bdaade58149ec9fcf3eae24b03b6f009189db18878a660821.36%
- 60de87445b5bedba19e665bfdae426bcdaa8a9bac392483755e4ca09a540dd8d0.78%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe97.5%
- msiexec.exe2.5%
Top Parents
- services.exe97.97%
- cmd.exe1.55%
- msiexec.exe0.48%
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