perfmon.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Resource and Performance Monitor
perfmon.exe is the 3037th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 91 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by resmon.exe.
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3037th
most commonly executed Windows program
91
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 5898266df2c54e2f0555d97cc11fbf4707afe2e991b1a86c1ee7f14f9ca5fa4d24.66%
- 76396d7c9650a86a425fd68f9851d0c06ddf3eb808a548fcf0c02fad6253399f21.92%
- 99baeadbffd9c466f394b2223ebd092567f0ff0c1ea3bd6263b349140e7bf5da20.55%
- a39ca2a381b3fbf64e002df4c0d308cabe9fa57bef8cc39e0d0ccd7bacc8ae8c16.44%
- 85b315c8293f61e9462d832d2fb2d61dc1e900a36965d9a15b6f7c86cdadf7aa5.48%
- 5f041cff346fb37e5c5c9dab3c1272c76f8b5f579205170e97d2248d04a4ea0c4.11%
- ce13bbaa066872f4037e4e4e820efc40c04885551ce392a9d9196d320dd589b22.74%
- f6b6bfca5f7483b3140735f7753cefcf33265db3b7113ed015b9a37299c7f90f2.74%
- 94e0eceb1a5db9d3c32fc83015ac0cc58db8a5b3e2d3a190631607a0e6736e1b1.37%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- Taskmgr.exe55.81%
- userinit.exe32.56%
- resmon.exe11.63%
Top Parents
- resmon.exe59.34%
- explorer.exe30.77%
- perfmon.exe5.49%
- mmc.exe3.3%
- cmd.exe1.1%
Top Children
- perfmon.exe71.43%
- mmc.exe14.29%
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