splunk-winprintmon.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Splunk Windows Print Monitor - tracks print job activity for compliance and auditing.
splunk-winprintmon.exe is the 277th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 42,957 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin and it is most often launched by splunkd.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin76.73%
- C:\Program Files\SUFwd\bin23.23%
- C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin0.04%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- e04ef32144669175fc844cd1fc2bfc81e5eae08fcfbd3784605160c4087bf99699.82%
- a5ac5a410a917acc06802dd729618e32fac4a8b16d7ed1c1870a2ea2ec2751ea0.18%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- splunkd.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.exe100%
Security Analysis
What does splunk-winprintmon.exe normally do?
Helper process of the Splunk Universal Forwarder. Collects specific data types (AD, network, registry, event logs) and passes them to splunkd.exe for forwarding.
When is splunk-winprintmon.exe suspicious?
Running without a Splunk installation. Running from unexpected paths. Parent other than splunkd.exe.
False positive notes
Normal in environments with Splunk Universal Forwarder deployed.
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