WSHost.exe
by Various
Application Support
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
WS Host - web service host process for management platforms.
WSHost.exe is the 700th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 5,475 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\WinStore and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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700th
most commonly executed Windows program
5,475
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\WinStore100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 7d132426764dfc18036dc92e71ea8f14b8502e154b3b1c3f0eb399cb90802a10100%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- wermgr.exe100%
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