msoia.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Microsoft Office Inventory Agent - collects Office installation and usage data for telemetry and licensing.
msoia.exe is the 165th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 96,945 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office1644.88%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office1531.81%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office1616.8%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office166.17%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office150.34%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- f46a62bc8b0b799e563df1a21c07a8eaab28a7bf20740db8296ef6ffc518284e32.41%
- a2755eed5b3dc2fcc602c4be60eac20cadad8cb91d40c1b60e48a24b37b23ed45.83%
- 540c0b9340fcd48d2c07964009de44834d64b57725d2bdff4ecd824f26d256933.13%
- 574f1282e768ae0cf1156f5804ad1e0c83ba4e148ef3029a05fc93d9d43af09c2.83%
- 6eb3b28287495c6a0e0084b551bdae9eb18cde3694bc98ec63a40fe804d484372.81%
- 4201c2fd299754bc167a0ff07e0eaf25b1dbe7d994f491bfb89e074346960f2d2.72%
- 7b3dec0e813da3651dbdc97b6a7ee841b37a4470231938b8382a6467e1817aa72.72%
- 4057d0087f447f11aece94ecbdca99c8ae52616ea01eeabc63271d44d94ab1192.65%
- 126cbe3d800ceb2ba2d9ea112d218bf475863b18b752d233babcb7540a2c86622.09%
- 0d072eef921cede98ae594b909327d52a0909c57e9f3a11576324bad52e3460c1.94%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe96.81%
- svchost.exe3.19%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe97.89%
- taskeng.exe2.09%
Top Children
- conhost.exe34.15%
- WerFault.exe19.51%
- RdrCEF.exe14.63%
- find.exe9.76%
- ngen.exe7.32%
- NETSTAT.EXE4.88%
- igfxEM.exe2.44%
- mscorsvw.exe2.44%
- ngentask.exe2.44%
- OfficeC2RClient.exe2.44%
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