MicrosoftEdgeSH.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Microsoft Edge Shell Helper - assists with Edge browser shell integration and protocol handling.
MicrosoftEdgeSH.exe is the 492nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 12,097 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by RuntimeBroker.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9e8a6c23cd45651027a74e154eb52901409b1f2916c02176accdbc722a26dd3673.56%
- d7a4f824b02c13daaca06815f1d579612b24d6b0fc4138317fc23d2aa7e2402522.65%
- e5d93718f0905b341d6fc68399257d88c56479b2a7ffb253fd88a405e6ed6e743.43%
- 1dca34112d66d882ca21ee56bc381783e57a8f77495e520208eca2b306a9632d0.36%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe99.95%
- DropboxUpdate.exe0.05%
Top Parents
- RuntimeBroker.exe99.98%
- DropboxUpdate.exe0.01%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe100%
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