SnippingTool.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Snipping Tool - screen capture utility for taking screenshots and annotating them.
SnippingTool.exe is the 486th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 12,545 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System3296.01%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2303.17.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool3.43%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2305.26.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.33%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2306.43.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.07%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2302.20.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.06%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2307.48.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.06%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2304.21.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.05%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2104.2.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 2b0f7420956db8c761f5b1fbb0d9549dfd50e5344420197e205adc1e90996a2939.55%
- 76610fec5aabe77401425bc8a437f58e9307b636197ffd048ece9e02e955f88d25.26%
- 4e30a8c88c755944145f2bc6c935ee5107c56832772f2561229e20ceab1d10d29.76%
- 627626fd008ca6916084d9d1bc693e723e444e44b84755ea75cc8c57432250886.34%
- 6635e48ad3f02fe5cac9669f974d27ec2fa77b1f6b519f09616630b6531a6ca84.14%
- 83be001996cd4d9e5a1a8cd130e17e5b5ee81c9b5cf1b9d9196d8a39fbf7506d3.69%
- dac46a37d2ad8fe1b31f290ceeba9560f8e7bb9648dc8285d1d1e2d96e9799e13.49%
- 9f769e52ac15ae1d0b6a3da293f612ac24303882b1d49ef7a5105ed1b24210d31.93%
- e85959f25f0b055272c1ee513b6a00abe966c691def9354e1fdd94f3eed30c1c1.19%
- 890884c7fe7d037e6debd21d1877e9c9c5e7790cdba007ddb219ae6a55667f781.18%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe97.11%
- winlogon.exe1.42%
- WerFault.exe0.44%
- tphkload.exe0.43%
- OneDrive.exe0.11%
- googledrivesync.exe0.03%
- SnippingTool.exe0.02%
- HxTsr.exe0.01%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe96.81%
- sihost.exe2.01%
- shtctky.exe0.37%
- svchost.exe0.33%
- WerFault.exe0.02%
Top Children
- CPC10Q.EXE71.43%
- crashpad_handler.exe23.38%
- WerFault.exe3.9%
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