Windows.Media.BackgroundPlayback.exe

by Microsoft

Operating System

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

Windows background media playback service

Windows.Media.BackgroundPlayback.exe is the 2195th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 244 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.

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2195th

most commonly executed Windows program

244

observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

C:\Windows\System32100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

fcdc52e9d70cfa8c4670cf83420e8f41f7e9abae44e6f46a9abecee5af90c18941.74%
8ee18d7712482b50738ed656f792d46c969e5c9272ba5af854a3f8c91f36308f25.62%
7c077d93a95ad86c7538c740598b415cfef1ddcfe853ea155927e8906079c9e611.16%
c2d6f3d0c84816c5f3d7a3eecb5f18bd1382a7dd64f2a8adc843b5bccf4f2b6e11.16%
511051289e3fb3a06639d7d43aee8104e53c42dbb7a8efc79404b8d7bb6b89665.79%
fa7da9587f07d847c492d371cfe18cce09c54b49a1cbf05efbb569b75939751f2.48%
3d8ecbf374674ac3d08b4fcad1efe393c82b837d90a84c8431dada73323e68041.24%
cbaa3f1a8cfc731ec67189917ffcabf530637e0d998293b743011a0d9e377a670.83%

Process Ancestry

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