vmcompute.exe
by Microsoft
Virtualization
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Hyper-V Host Compute Service
vmcompute.exe is the 1881st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 365 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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1881st
most commonly executed Windows program
365
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 5f358adca51c3e4f559262b505c1c70ceb9f278450744aebb6930b5fb59e3cb831.59%
- 68e2627f409d0396c60a2406959da550c66911101abf13feeb1ce7a26dbc2b1112.09%
- f266f39b04de1b89d694eebe04a4c8b39dfd8ea7073c2693b7ae9d851e4418207.42%
- eb6a19a6a0eafe0735faf0b4a08227aac7d01cbd3db5965ca49cd2994be279195.77%
- f6a08ae864b3ba7b3992fca7c06f4252a27253fa6a9514b60ab83989ababeb5f3.57%
- 7d4f2b37cfeb2f72aff43b8eb673a209de93e081fa44b46eee89bba1adc6ad783.3%
- 627753e45b21ab373e48f510c72d5259519ffca121382e4fbb559a7520a687292.75%
- 78a08faf873a51dd1ec4b0081515a911b246e7db11ae65d9b53cffa1ee34ab012.75%
- 6d5ab05b3737db3cdf54554acead1f2cda262dc62d5c1cd941a4ef08c5efe6762.47%
- 925fa43835ed43993a559e29f245edec72deaa03db317f401df9114a2ff246582.47%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- vmwp.exe100%
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