sfc.exe
by Microsoft
System Utility
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
System File Checker — verifies integrity of Windows system files
sfc.exe is the 2161st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 255 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by sdiagnhost.exe.
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2161st
most commonly executed Windows program
255
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 786d3cb14f160e4795690f198278424648e3973dff9ca86317658714406cad8780.78%
- 2b66984d9f3475e5bd1f78b0d781039a90d6cb235fa4469ccea141772dd6d4f96.67%
- e4006f0cb1ee909a8cd04b8a56899c459473406c3a9a3da53b891e5ae8f7e6096.27%
- e7a57be660b32aebec5c59786d9f56de1dfb9e4bce2b1aaefea94caac5c63e422.35%
- 0c4bdc3dd2f5b76f425ad5bec308de936878acd2c9e8794873ad6139f7fc9a611.18%
- 95d582c79421497c848d8406757f18acf4e8cc690d6fb5096cdedad4de6db6600.78%
- a72198a7b014a933679b8e3da3c518306c0f455a257794210c075840c3cfba120.78%
- baf13ce3859fc727b767818b27262d549519870e6cca5e960eea266eb90e99c90.78%
- c232923dd6b7b61f3a966fbd1e44ba3c0db0302947badca6c811f6826e03a8170.39%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe75%
- explorer.exe25%
Top Parents
- sdiagnhost.exe12.55%
- cmd.exe5.88%
- powershell.exe1.96%
Top Children
- conhost.exe100%
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