SophosFS.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Sophos File Scanner Service - on-access file scanning component of Sophos endpoint protection.
SophosFS.exe is the 702nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 5,351 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos File Scanner and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos File Scanner100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- d061381c27b082656a41fde727d369e67bee94afa0949b828f8e6774d741575c46.04%
- 51bfeb209a00909fbcf5ee930819e75a3d4ce01791e4b8cf69d3c0cb0883310728.52%
- f335b7b8afc333310c09c69fd4ccdea52f79ccd9698fafaf9836afd4426cc4e017.5%
- e308a8d5d097606be16595657ab3252b253985266d530f414b667f8668a5e9186.86%
- f8e1cfd3cfbc25adc59d54262849d0803e5ce44a07cc563a380e3a871be5a4671.08%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- SophosFileScanner.exe99.99%
- cacls.exe<0.01%
- regsvr32.exe<0.01%
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