EchoTrail

Widgets.exe

by Microsoft
Operating System

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

Windows Widgets - Windows 11 widget panel for news, weather, and other information tiles.

Widgets.exe is the 1154th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,465 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_423.11600.0.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.

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1154th
most commonly executed Windows program
1,465
observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_423.11600.0.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard28.6%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_423.13900.0.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard25.26%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_423.8900.0.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard10.1%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_421.20070.625.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard5.6%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_423.3400.0.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard5.6%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_421.20070.95.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard4.44%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_421.20070.305.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard3.62%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_421.20070.545.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard2.59%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_423.21300.10.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard2.59%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_421.20070.765.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy\Dashboard2.32%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 880eb1d343dd528dd06b0ec364dfd9b400b75913db6db4baf0b3e0c3a2b58e8f28.6%
  • cf5231d757d7a1cf135d2f41c7404820c03c5361b3c2c1826878a77d69c813fb25.26%
  • 32f78ab9a6c1436d0a85f9de708abffb2f7b661d2674ce5fac0f14d9414daa9a10.1%
  • 407a085d3a55783c167da20852ffc331609d34707e1a632b513d5106fdefbd525.6%
  • cd6762c2fbed6e45a7312adac0e0c2ff50ece206c438e956e9657cd20f6b56125.6%
  • f69c6fb2bd02995cce9e4646b8a5be009b9e790ac79b4c81913ba63c1a53fd1d4.44%
  • 76f80e381c5b070cabb7ef7b6bcdace8a596d23830b72310a2f7ea082c4047813.62%
  • 99e339013bfaa01a91de725d60e308076a212ed6a5db99e6fc3343cf935571ef2.59%
  • daa93c3b6d0d4ed770fcf4a361c46e1ab3cc7c464efb514755e9dccf6b5d74072.59%
  • aa402311c4a984288765ea4e98c0d36578b42cb98a04a511b31b23de5a1613852.32%

Process Ancestry

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