ShellExperienceHost.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Shell Experience Host - hosts Windows shell visual elements including the taskbar clock, calendar, and Action Center.
ShellExperienceHost.exe is the 367th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 22,811 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SystemApps\ShellExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SystemApps\ShellExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy99.99%
- C:\Windows\Temp\...0.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- cadbb32acf33f9dd61c2f780fcb5134fce4f1a00b8fb4dd334c3399538af514314.65%
- 4e85ca1d1fddefe51eb264c64db35fc8a02f96f7179b5d7eb60314fbdfe3fd9814.04%
- dd4f3a45fde2ae90af1d3598d906eacb576884b6e44499051b963cf7cdbd97d59.4%
- f05250dbb04180b18d71f032fe68ca32e306a59c6338085b836432b5f5cc56958.08%
- 6cc44fbee63233a379e08b2fdf451890f6fce8615878c44bc1a680a6f13c9cbd5.88%
- d76d719caf8db12c5d8dd5e062d173dedf29436bd79dfe72b984939a3795a6c75.8%
- d0dc767f12b002714793d8aed9a7f1f88b53069b54c0dd5e91c568b7d04dc0445.38%
- 8083e6cad0fcb99054d17102f203ed8e2a1386108c0a181c1079d25d361d4e3e4.07%
- bea4b258cff088718b0c247ce7a7352faed102fe09d29b5dfd9d5f3c817245e73.91%
- fac55fcea6448a425f833806f1a31c4aa9fd839dc98b5200d94e926d0e5f3bfd2.57%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe99.98%
- explorer.exe0.01%
- ShellExperienceHost.exe<0.01%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe99.6%
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