policyHost.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Policy Host - hosts and evaluates security or configuration policies for endpoint compliance.
policyHost.exe is the 464th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 13,403 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Policy Platform and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Policy Platform100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 180aadc08678271bca09c945bf6e565f7945679ecc25f242ef99e04836841e5f94.69%
- 936da90351444cbdaa6f993a643d6c22124f61c87fea31865cc87a1d31ece1e54.14%
- 21afe98ea9aff20cfdfc441ff2c10ed8cba26949bc9d5ea2c8b7f73c750600d11.17%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe99.96%
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