ServiceShell.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Generic service shell wrapper for hosting applications as Windows services
ServiceShell.exe is the 1469th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 762 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\UpdateService and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\UpdateService100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- e057e702f71112a671f7e54479c574e0f37ef8be0802bd8f07ee11cae632715920.42%
- 51e96956773164dde8d7fd558b8386f27e9268612f58a50252a6fb9d19c6b83a15.21%
- 3934e2deab339a08d34c933e018c743e07c692442831b2337da2c3b7cd26e3f412.39%
- b24e45ee0740d5bede374d80a2c6ccfe8d8aa1aeacd4bacb226aea8e977514ef9.3%
- 8334a6c972db2d4ecbf05bd81a8d1b49a23c592a9db66c6679980c2fe3e0f2e89.15%
- 7f21f2a0c2d738c5479171c518a090a502137d510960472532b9e521e68522347.61%
- 06a8cf47c442e7d01fecc05b28d99598ac1d3b490368993188cd35a59a52d0fc5.63%
- d8c3bcf3415f04e760b7f9d3c346c88056cd08256e29f6450e422e398716f8604.08%
- d0199cf195835eac6346953a906ef80e2125f722cd31dc073e96486b840661ca3.8%
- 99af9f5f07ae01e9e7ea08e759e08053a6e1e8854cf0662d0930a05017ea85d12.39%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe99.87%
Top Children
- InvColPC.exe60.56%
- expand.exe26.68%
- cmd.exe7.78%
- TelemetryUtility.exe3.22%
- dellupdate.exe0.27%
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