bitsadmin.exe
Summary
The BITS administration utility allows you to create jobs and monitor the progress of those jobs.
bitsadmin.exe is the 3817th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 41 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by sdiagnhost.exe.
3817th
most commonly executed Windows program
41
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- e1057a20945bce8f00c0be5e3db40c4a98ab33f42f4d2df919aedb0ef6651d6e42.5%
- 3375272da344cde1644afadc1f7fc880a00d7f2c48885776650a299e98f1dcd130%
- 7c2365b752f8d2708c737bc34260d5f3d1568fdd2e12892d3ca3e4952add023010%
- 1adecd9049ffd027f5b709866725a5ae1b22497dd89ee86b68698167cbd100d57.5%
- 03c7e317e277bbd6c9c1159f8718a9d302e6f78e0d80c09d52a994b7598c0f305%
- 739b2dd012ea183895cc01116906f339c9aa1c0baabf6f22c8e59e25a0c129172.5%
- eaae8536d554d0e86d8540a8b34db2649bd884843f389495d0b6e91636c6cf542.5%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe92.31%
- explorer.exe7.69%
Top Parents
- sdiagnhost.exe82.93%
- cmd.exe14.63%
- powershell.exe2.44%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.