MonitoringHost.exe
by Microsoft
Monitoring
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
SCOM Monitoring Host agent process
MonitoringHost.exe is the 1654th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 526 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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1654th
most commonly executed Windows program
526
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 25dc87920559da146acc16b983b77a16beb953e975c850d6b6f8474a86e527a740.11%
- cb06e1d5c09df125a09aef7200c9d1943ab4b8b83091fbb62c2f0557084b4c2238.21%
- e2f3fa306b29d8b94cb569ce0a1dbc4b5669ed1a7c5259c7084d571491aaf51521.67%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- cscript.exe98.29%
- pmfexe.exe1.08%
- cmd.exe0.49%
- powershell.exe0.13%
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