SWJobEngineSvc2.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
SolarWinds Job Engine Service manages job execution for SolarWinds IT management products (Patch Manager, N-central, etc.).
SWJobEngineSvc2.exe is the 51st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 732,721 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\SolarWinds\JobEngine.v2 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\SolarWinds\JobEngine.v299.99%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Agent\Plugins\JobEngine0.01%
- D:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion<0.01%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion<0.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- a5955b303f2318952c06898cc149f51fd2f059f0c443ba8a53349e2c8aecd54599.99%
- 81109522be52a31def23c7fa23c64ab91954c1944aa25c620eb3379b884140b00.01%
- bf2392118495104439f954fd72b8a97c768abd13011985876b40fc36ec04e4f70.01%
- 7a816676202fc34119936d4fc56d8b7a9975c78f35b6c97302435c2c46cfe262<0.01%
- a5e167a12da866c680c4abc73ba7d8e51f6ee80b51c5d679ad23dc3d2b9365b3<0.01%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe99.99%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe83.66%
- unlodctr.exe0.01%
- lodctr.exe0.01%
Security Analysis
What does SWJobEngineSvc2.exe normally do?
Part of SolarWinds software.
When is SWJobEngineSvc2.exe suspicious?
Running from unexpected paths.
How do attackers abuse SWJobEngineSvc2.exe?
Not commonly abused.
Detection guidance
No specific detection needed.
False positive notes
Normal operation.
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