WssPowerShell.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows SharePoint Services PowerShell - PowerShell module host for SharePoint administration.
WssPowerShell.exe is the 569th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 8,709 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9c64aabfb928d6a199c1b5d5e2543318a96b80576a2f3a12966ee834c2c34d03100%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.exe84.53%
- NETSTAT.EXE12.03%
- appcmd.exe3.44%
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