SMSvcHost.exe
by Various
Application Support
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
SM Service Host - service manager hosting process.
SMSvcHost.exe is the 1244th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,171 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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1244th
most commonly executed Windows program
1,171
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.3031985.91%
- C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation14.09%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1d4f3475252c2315ef51b7b76206776bff4462c0b31328e266bf5f4acc2475d131.54%
- 9abf73213988ed9aa72b2658f8b91967a24c7cc2049859d86ce9c51a4ab57a8414.9%
- 0ddc4855c00a581a35ab2a11d2aaacc844c460f13f524dd9b92b8f00c31173a714.82%
- 70c513b15fade0a474e0e707dd233195077205f4dfa12df96f42fe0addd0db619.1%
- fb0124b38807beef5649d2841409697022629efe3696817ec2edb4dd99c7b9226.15%
- 092705c17d057e86ea25b269819ccffd21a2f72a8563cfbe2941a38559e136204.07%
- 424475568cd70237f056838388a5f7bdcd1b09349085498644c75940b12e8eaf3.29%
- f677cbd94abe25aecf08ecfbbda063a9c032c678327a0d105cb6b3e587c44c193.21%
- 4843e28bd29aa2124342b5ee7591d4400373077c69d4768d2f67b65a744f16993.03%
- 75dce4e5fa08cceaf4d3d30fe8e26903fcdd14cc852e820f63b40f374c706dbd2.34%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.exe75%
- cacls.exe25%
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