mitigationscanner.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Mitigation Scanner - scans for Spectre/Meltdown and other CPU vulnerability mitigations.
mitigationscanner.exe is the 600th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 7,745 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- eb99368d022521e05657ca15884ba078abdf216f2c92cfaa5e97bc2eca5eba23100%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.exe100%
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