textinputhost.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Text Input Host - hosts the modern text input UI including emoji picker, clipboard history, and voice typing.
textinputhost.exe is the 825th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 3,617 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\InputApp and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\InputApp63.59%
- C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy36.41%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 791202d8da61bf6527eb8008dd16297da1c64cc01bedcefccb5fd4004493cacf18.83%
- bdc29b4cca1efb8a30d8ea9d47a0e7c123e2e42ae2b7050cbf2c0ebe11e7a1b916.67%
- 399dfaa74cf9c50426a780137c6a06ba78d85e5d12cc9c8d89ff2352a0be46d416.01%
- 43b8f0576a5d521886c489386e2030f71c981175e2d775f3513d5cb5a856ba1e10.04%
- 1b996d5dfaef6b31a01f8ad5d7913091d7e56a0a605acd6c17f109e9c675adfb8.13%
- c480752fba0e9daf476b548248a47a2c6bf14f3de8045945fbee9f9e92a7b41a7.24%
- 238581975d3956fdfc23549c4b0a0c510b23a5963de42544797897348f8c515b4.29%
- 82eb7cabd1342c7fee3f62f5ae7a780416eeb19a8aaddf9a7d5d3b85550f3aac3.68%
- 660f17362751781c60af04201a635c356141d11c213478d9ba30985c754500623.35%
- 79ba178fe00e57de9f1f2ff50bec7328abae21abcb0fd194f8b98ccb442daf372.24%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe100%
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