wmpnscfg.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Media Player Network Sharing Configuration - configures media sharing for Windows Media Player DLNA streaming.
wmpnscfg.exe is the 871st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 3,129 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 10888bb9c3799e1e8b010c0f9088ced376aad63a509fce1727c457b022cdc71799.97%
- 078e2cfc890a1492aad56a62b2a3958687010d1c741add189af148044404972b0.03%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe99.74%
- WerFault.exe0.22%
- services.exe0.04%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe99.74%
- services.exe0.22%
- svchost.exe0.03%
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