HyperVCon.exe

by Microsoft
System Utility

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

Hyper-V VM Console connection helper. Manages console connections to Hyper-V virtual machines.

HyperVCon.exe is the 150th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 114,220 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\SAAZOD and it is most often launched by SAAZScheduler.exe.

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150th
most commonly executed Windows program
114,220
observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\SAAZOD100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 12a84c9e328e87bec852168a851d819283df07497ee51572e4b56c158d6740ed57.96%
  • 761b493c4898bef313e64d1cc27402e1524f7a6e7e17e5003644b1bcd453974624.85%
  • c1377fca1d934c89f70218d91df5fda6b251b0239c0c2f66cbf9e4bb4fa7261210.57%
  • c70d4ddfeb6e9a1761a31c4025362c922ee95a3f92f9f7abb33cb2775989030c6.63%

Process Ancestry

Top Parents

Security Analysis

What does HyperVCon.exe normally do?

Part of Microsoft software.

When is HyperVCon.exe suspicious?

Running from unexpected paths.

How do attackers abuse HyperVCon.exe?

Not commonly abused.

Detection guidance

No specific detection needed.

False positive notes

Normal operation.

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