mpengine.exe
by Microsoft
Endpoint Security
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine core
mpengine.exe is the 1329th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 993 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\ProgramData\... and it is most often launched by MsMpEng.exe.
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1329th
most commonly executed Windows program
993
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\ProgramData\...100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 47415996dff467c47dcb9e1ecab524b3e7db071bdc7b0f10753f2ae1569a55d484.29%
- 29e18b8c5af8f6fd47f7688f6deda19e6ad774fe9761521b270fdf8199478e0b1.31%
- 256c271d77faf0628df11a2e2ddecff3d8784c44fbbf8322505497db2348ca541.21%
- 361b906772e08c8678dcbc637e02369797e19a2b3a7f497864ab828129d277131.11%
- 4c759256226e6df21aca06d31e8d910cf3559639eed5e1f547587370982a411a1.11%
- 62b6e7e2f67f40f837f075278a0422cfd69a9e42ade602a402147565f4d48c8a1.11%
- 0facf44c4351942c3a336fad3c1609821078d649bae853a5ac0db1bbea572f481.01%
- 1da5b858228f5d8290abd462ed2329d69d685981de4c7990e1dde843ea4bf6111.01%
- 22dedf38e1a1df5c2dbd7150d3fe54184cd5540bb9390720de780a1cd162ccd41.01%
- 9b71d58d9d839d3596cedb46708384db386962552541fbb1fdb96e9b2a8660f91.01%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- MsMpEng.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.exe100%
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