OpenConsole.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Terminal OpenConsole host process
OpenConsole.exe is the 1383rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 894 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.16.10262.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe and it is most often launched by WindowsTerminal.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.16.10262.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe41.83%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.17.11461.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe24.5%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.15.2875.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe19.02%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.15.3466.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe10.18%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.16.10261.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe2.57%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.14.2282.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe1.57%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\microsoft.windowsterminal_1.6.10571.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe0.34%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- bae417643072ff864b514687bc6cbdb4a4633bc50b69031ebdcbd5011d54434441.83%
- a1686717da0d79f2db071a6866677bfd492b44eaa47eb375a992145a6f4bd87424.5%
- a64732f10b86cbd09ec3009a95c6e093b77f4b2570b1fbe8a4bf6329541704cb19.02%
- eae88665e33b06f78e5189c55dbe36e84efdde4e3b35dafc060c59985ac3ad1e10.18%
- 6b1aaee400d2215a4ceaf3cf0c657d7bc0b79f543d42bd6319b4b6a07bb4c0772.57%
- 7a6995d902f6b633061d5eeadc8482d55b297e642e1313befe1735f503df63661.57%
- 1a74450bd875c949b563aa31a1c8dd566b3ca8468af46b61b29e04af41ab0ca80.34%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- WindowsTerminal.exe73.04%
- svchost.exe26.85%
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