Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.WebServices.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Active Directory Web Services for PowerShell ADWS queries
Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.WebServices.exe is the 2814th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 117 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\ADWS and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\ADWS100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- d40478a82bb2993f39a3ed6066cd0599be37ff9a0898636a680926fe145c64d644.44%
- 798b3e4e019a392616cbd16e3cfc47ac1b3320cddd956bfd0b1e23edb0fc378630.77%
- d0526a01369da4f4c5107fe24535ef218b4f69e32db653534c62ee7dfb72269411.11%
- 7f704c33cd27c6b4ff821d83a43eb679075e3b4590be02de8b705f06b75088ac7.69%
- 2ba73582b4334aeda469b97d528c24ccb2392fd189524198017d59df4c4f65045.98%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- lodctr.exe100%
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