rdpinit.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Remote Desktop Protocol initialization process
rdpinit.exe is the 2606th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 151 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by userinit.exe.
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2606th
most commonly executed Windows program
151
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- b04bfc32973c033462a3387cce4b5ede51afe5f50fa36900f097fd369a2470ee31.79%
- 311008a5dd8b7f867d0da9ee8e388d1233f228fb366fb252bb311f9201c1e8d129.8%
- 0396e8157cff4b80ad5a898f469b3f0f7d6af300181315e6685d0a8d649906bb23.84%
- d36892f15ea38b8c421c9178d938f077ddc79a9bd23aa8fc76a4d3ed81c1ea828.61%
- 68c36ad56ff81930e3cc921f1c7a078725113a4167446b15c55e5e7513d0906e5.96%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- winlogon.exe100%
Top Parents
- userinit.exe100%
Top Children
- rdpshell.exe55.72%
- ShoreTel.exe20.48%
- chrome.exe9.59%
- VISIO.EXE1.29%
- lync.exe1.11%
- bomgar-rep.exe0.92%
- LTClient.exe0.55%
- ONENOTE.EXE0.55%
- OUTLOOK.EXE0.55%
- WINWORD.EXE0.55%
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