mighost.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Migration Host - handles data and settings migration during major Windows upgrades.
mighost.exe is the 305th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 31,830 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by setuphost.exe.
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305th
most commonly executed Windows program
31,830
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...86.14%
- C:\Windows\System32\migwiz13.86%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 313050f79fd42e4dab69b816d1ec28840544f144826ccb537b88808198ec1fed23.43%
- 92fc726fc055fc7977795e3327b00a125eef98349b78aa2dbaefa11f0f1b76df15.52%
- db83a6f46f7dac44e6f9e0e2d79764ec1c32319e518fb0de8e3508f5418ddbf514.61%
- 273e9f2dfdc1e27623541cf706edd73ba0a3cdfa32a18b0ce8cc8e6807901ac914.33%
- d8f19b6e0372e54473bbc2911534dc8a9196f4eae337e68e9f2e58416c852fca7.41%
- 34419a9bf1aab2bf04c322fa3b0697302b13d1abd1300e2616758a2a664ac4d13.76%
- 4b459f70524a0ba16c7f771473c60b1faa77ed00d242b7a3e083e67fd8d792443.7%
- ea193f311a0807f07ef7c07f2d031e80c591935f30a736747882a8eced31c19d2.4%
- 6737acb9ae32070421c6bfdb2ccbb44aab7ca19dbd890d688af895575157db6d2.11%
- 54f9e04062e486e0b6a5e60e50703d84acbce0603926bb1e841876d70fd7fe9c2.01%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- WindowsUpdateBox.exe59.6%
Top Parents
- setuphost.exe73.78%
- dllhost.exe13.86%
- setupplatform.exe12.35%
Top Children
- conhost.exe99.43%
- WerFault.exe0.11%
- regsvr32.exe0.03%
- esrv.exe<0.01%
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