audiodg.exe
Summary
Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation hosts audio processing in an isolated process to prevent third-party audio effects from crashing the audio subsystem.
audiodg.exe is the 69th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 392,034 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1480e8175b2a9f3e35a2d11b7d186ecd72cc2c2939aa0acc60a7d64ef1f864aa16.46%
- 92139eaafcc681ae39f1757fc5219f3b4f62daad3055f3cfd6972a161513a22211.01%
- be7b4d24854a80a2cb08f3f7e8c09e3b06c86b420dc867120306aaa6981a40cc4.95%
- 7998c9b6bda4cadf5106527cdcaee29a97fb2214c3df8c9da865525855c131fc4.12%
- 4eaffbc39de50e320a284298241e885820e8125b25da7cf453d35eeb4250b99d3.4%
- f4dac9e23d58879a2f5dd909f417c1f7b2b7e6c836f9ffb88fed78d5ec0cb70c3.32%
- d76b12e101152d1ad0181fd359d0f5f1891b8c279cc556de4ecc45f4f9ac89ee3.02%
- a87a6351f2c04a13e4b832dd9685d6e54d885dcaf598a35b0f92c1e48b7d53cf2.96%
- 8ad17465a1948aef5e7c1fc625394fc6027e888981947a8468d4a737c37e51342.7%
- 5f01e190ae925a42ee12b9336aa1ebe7cdaf2a7db4e606ebfa0dcdb8e9dbb0c72.58%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe99.97%
- svchost.exe0.03%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe99.96%
- audiodg.exe0.04%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe94.79%
- audiodg.exe5.01%
- conhost.exe0.13%
- cacls.exe0.03%
- mscorsvw.exe0.03%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
Security Analysis
What does audiodg.exe normally do?
Located in C:\Windows\System32 or standard Windows/Office paths. Part of normal Windows or Office operations.
When is audiodg.exe suspicious?
Running from non-standard paths. Parent process other than expected. Spawning shells or unusual child processes.
How do attackers abuse audiodg.exe?
Not commonly abused.
Detection guidance
Low priority. Validate path and parent process.
False positive notes
Normal system/Office operation.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.