vmware.exe
by VMware / Broadcom
Virtualization
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
VMware Workstation main application
vmware.exe is the 1844th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 385 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
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1844th
most commonly executed Windows program
385
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 30378925cae2a982f9be762e14e1e94e489f7c66bad22403e71b39cb1668947375.8%
- 5763af1cc445cd70d5e06b09ec55ae271271ec1b895deb23e64de62d081fbd1418.35%
- 675255f8bc8233790a8c5a19396c91bf3db2d064fc90afa1f5f77fbbe9c8d7361.86%
- ea896666e136a3944a050d9f6811754f0c06498ecc2d60b9d8f8d4a02557bac61.6%
- 8459e8558bea6dcdc38e6e20ad5dadd0716ac46302f2816bf2d04fa2ef1cccad1.33%
- 42817e8e889bafe35eada150e446144fc0e2a09b11cc4b6eb74daef250c052d30.8%
- f8709fe483f606928f2553f0192a661fa1c515148a278ef5638acc1a943e4a4a0.27%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe75.09%
- explorer.exe13.65%
- svchost.exe2.73%
- OUTLOOK.EXE2.05%
- runonce.exe1.37%
- WerFault.exe1.37%
- RuntimeBroker.exe1.02%
- WINWORD.EXE1.02%
- Taskmgr.exe0.68%
- chrome.exe0.34%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe82.34%
- chrome.exe12.73%
- RuntimeBroker.exe1.82%
- vmware-tray.exe1.82%
- vmware.exe1.04%
- OpenWith.exe0.26%
Top Children
- vmware-remotemks.exe32.97%
- vmware-tray.exe31.4%
- vmware-unity-helper.exe31.32%
- vmware.exe0.33%
- vmware-vmx.exe0.17%
- chrome.exe0.08%
- pcaui.exe0.08%
- WerFault.exe0.08%
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