EchoTrail

mDNSResponder.exe

by Apple
Application Support

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

Bonjour/mDNS Responder - Apple Bonjour zero-configuration networking service (mDNS/DNS-SD).

mDNSResponder.exe is the 945th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 2,410 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Bonjour and it is most often launched by services.exe.

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945th
most commonly executed Windows program
2,410
observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\Bonjour89.2%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Bonjour6.54%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Xamarin\Bonjour3.43%
  • C:\...0.83%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • e399c390687589194d8aad385055f0cfa7d52ad9e837d8ff95008b8eb2b34e5065.5%
  • 17bffc5df609ce3b2f0cab4bd6c118608c66a3ad86116a47e90b2bb7d895412227.05%
  • f7e145f5d8db1017d5b7b9d5380100f170fe5cc2050b5f7346a521b7b72d21666.56%
  • 10f21999ff6b1d410ebf280f7f27deaca5289739cf12f4293b614b8fc6c88dcc0.89%

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