NvSHIM.exe
by NVIDIA
Driver/Hardware
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
NVIDIA Shim - compatibility layer for NVIDIA driver services.
NvSHIM.exe is the 618th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 7,251 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\Update Core and it is most often launched by NvTmRep.exe.
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618th
most commonly executed Windows program
7,251
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\Update Core96.68%
- C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NvBackend3.32%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 4ecc2a145f88635004f723f381552986e0e0d49145d9aa159ce9f50b7a44502054.81%
- a8ad8db7165fa7fe15bc6710e88a7acb3573f5e49569b5d6673969c180f8d5f414.13%
- 88c8fd1b5658224dbfeea4e435db170c8a4d26c8d873751064ad5c13ae50506b6.63%
- 44824d9aeaa46d7d52dbca91bb37fe0e8bc178044d0bd842cb3855b5559312e16.11%
- a97547c1630a6b07926449cbb77f75eff95a0256807349a9d828b1373ab58f603.9%
- 36b50c125a5cf759ad9cc581f0826d26182a54dbae78b0d604f819366a8ab47a2.84%
- 9c449a3c78290b79a0c2abbc142cb073de6955483c3b4939b101463d37c406922.29%
- 0e0fc40204c42c96916c92d4bd29b711e33b0a2f53fba03c60f3a5af4434a7091.95%
- 342d5408e55e294f25a8601e2d7f2890000a3cae486e941283ba992cd44536c11.46%
- 2751465f2ec50ec7e3037805b8e348e0ed28f72c83db3141cc35a4cbaaf493941.41%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe69.17%
- nvcontainer.exe30.83%
Top Parents
- NvTmRep.exe82.94%
- nvcontainer.exe16.88%
Top Children
- conhost.exe99.97%
- WerFault.exe0.03%
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