taskhostex.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Task Host EX (Windows 8/Server 2012) - variant of taskhostw.exe that executes scheduled tasks and background work items.
taskhostex.exe is the 371st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 22,445 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- b0863d305a74c6c74657cc57b3f1c21a829d7a6183a9f38fdc5bfed9cf320e1097.04%
- cc544b5534d11077555344a980cb439697d7f7fd6728008d1a31eb9c0b4bc8e12.96%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe96.03%
- wininit.exe3.97%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe97.02%
- services.exe2.89%
Top Children
- ngentask.exe97.44%
- WerFault.exe2.56%
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