splunkd.exe
by Splunk/Cisco
SIEM / Log Collection
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Splunk daemon - core process for Splunk Enterprise or Universal Forwarder.
splunkd.exe is the 752nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 4,496 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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752nd
most commonly executed Windows program
4,496
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin88.7%
- C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin9.56%
- C:\Program Files\SUFwd\bin1.73%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 0447655e3d9c30cf7ef05826eea786fa3bb9dc688e6d6cd94d7074ea70001e1a83.82%
- 83d07d1204c85e6c0c58293932161c0008e5430cb504584a694109456123dfc515.2%
- a2b52e9eea072aa733898ed24bfe47bb5abcd26b3eda8b3bd03ada73d03448f80.97%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe63.94%
- splunkd.exe20.83%
- cmd.exe9.89%
- splunk.exe3.8%
- python.exe1.2%
- wininit.exe0.29%
- btool.exe0.05%
Top Parents
- splunkd.exe60.89%
- btool.exe17.4%
- python.exe16.43%
- splunk.exe4.25%
- services.exe0.58%
- cmd.exe0.45%
Top Children
- splunk-optimize.exe51.82%
- splunk-powershell.exe12.29%
- splunk-admon.exe6.15%
- splunk-netmon.exe6.15%
- splunk-regmon.exe6.15%
- splunk-winevtlog.exe4.65%
- splunkd.exe0.39%
- python.exe0.11%
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