WUDFHost.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows User-Mode Driver Framework Host - hosts user-mode device drivers (USB, sensors, etc.) in a sandboxed process.
WUDFHost.exe is the 216th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 61,909 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- d988b5b3f5c41cdc9de4decf7d5286d51547dfa39f9a26c0b61fc5c0187c508c59.32%
- 007712752e505bfa2a924146e2ed089ce9c57d14a704f3c7dd8c48140bf1465414.23%
- 50e3669817106e3cfbfa8fe371328812f7b3fc3205b86e079d9c617950c4e8475.8%
- 8fe1e68d6ea8c270e81ee2ac71fcae54be037875977995d6793629b175d9cb8d4.36%
- 8e5a9e595f24d07206791817972fe475a0d66f3abb9cfddc8fb50203ad449dae3.52%
- e6f5de8bc3fc572d9a2866024c5af3a83a4d70f4d38810b9e7679a2e9f89775c3.04%
- 2e9edac8ad372bd9adffe852a18f5fbd25de804c0ca39c2f5b88365cc443c1381.82%
- 368693177f3c6aeca48847f6d923a8ae2386029f5ff21d70f868923e04d860ef1.79%
- 305b523064835550ff226f6a3ff2ddcd2b43403e437566b0686b22e6568ba02e1.47%
- 28cb4ebd59945b16e0e9e04154c7a1255b404a6e819c6c5fb4dbe4fa050c9b3b0.93%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe73.39%
- services.exe26.61%
Top Parents
- services.exe79.37%
- svchost.exe20.62%
Top Children
- wermgr.exe85.75%
- csrss.exe5.52%
- wininit.exe4.75%
- WerFault.exe2.95%
- winlogon.exe0.77%
- cmd.exe0.13%
- conhost.exe0.13%
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