minionhost.exe
by VMware / SaltStack
Endpoint Management
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
SaltStack Minion host process
minionhost.exe is the 1580th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 598 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Cybereason ActiveProbe and it is most often launched by PylumLoader.exe.
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1580th
most commonly executed Windows program
598
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Cybereason ActiveProbe100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 74bd4ebc47ddb4543aee597a5742f8509258f1ee87bfd8c5b9f5e53350a93d5653.01%
- 7e01b292c3c888c0d347212a93cc379cc4fa50756395a0f677b1c9457f5854d831.27%
- 84eba6c657e23f6fa7a304a636a7ae1cb0e36c927703a9eec04737b3540acd508.7%
- 7435f68a12254b4b805efdcc747ddd2c0d7aa7782db81bae8a2dd8b121dffab24.01%
- 55c7d205deed4a2753c7d34e736cf6af26270fe6e42a2b86dc78b0c9fe3a694a1.51%
- 8dd8fa12fdecd708921afb0586de264eb866960d0396a20381e1e0cfde86badb1.51%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe57.64%
- PylumLoader.exe42.36%
Top Parents
- PylumLoader.exe56.02%
Top Children
- reg.exe46.2%
- setx.exe46.2%
- msiexec.exe1.49%
- cmd.exe0.66%
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