timeout.exe
by Microsoft
System Utility
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Timeout command - pauses batch script execution for a specified number of seconds.
timeout.exe is the 287th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 38,050 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by cmd.exe.
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287th
most commonly executed Windows program
38,050
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System3298.42%
- C:\Windows\SysWOW641.58%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- b6d49416f9ad736b0de3e8e2f3b9174f7f274751de9cff9f5d0840dd1e03b56a79.85%
- 4e7b96a3f6ac745f229863b5893e2a60fd84a021b0c84a24b9f57d9ad0d66e0718.14%
- 35a2d2fc8f5b0baf4dbc489acd24229c0092ff56def50aa3e0043626bc25117f0.69%
- dab1647e4a1f207835162d87192a173519b1bc1fc274f2e17421702fffa578e70.35%
- cad2ab101c037d8f45073f61f927dc8750a937b9d5b878453fdf48a6c04660db0.28%
- d8b40a1b7cc0c5be23c7df31f6116c1e6829e2f1561813103c3d271a1766cfdb0.14%
- b7d686c4c92d1c0bbf1604b8c43684e227353293b3206a1220bab77562504b3c0.11%
- c8c350fab1130644536db6a84f605791367308b995079ad494d46a8c617c21d60.11%
- ee3fb5e7fb6e9e8ba3039ff134bfacb760a2b238a87d67e8c3aa68d38a30a46f0.07%
- 30ac6ade06528752335d3fc36844436fca5d731176dd5a3c4d9616921acc06920.06%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- igfxCUIService.exe0.13%
- ActiveHealth.exe0.01%
- explorer.exe0.01%
- cmd.exe<0.01%
Top Parents
- cmd.exe99.98%
- powershell.exe0.02%
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