cortana.exe

by Microsoft
Operating System

Summary

Cortana digital assistant

cortana.exe is the 1354th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 934 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_4.2204.13303.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.

1354th
most commonly executed Windows program
934
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_4.2204.13303.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe31.58%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_3.2109.6305.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe11.24%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_3.2106.14307.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe9.74%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_3.2110.13603.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe8.99%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_3.2108.25001.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe6.21%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_2.2103.17603.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe6%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_3.2111.12605.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe5.46%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_3.2105.19601.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe3.53%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_4.2203.4603.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe3.32%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_3.2202.10603.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe3.21%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 52f1fa37e79c52ae1173644c44d3abdf37442d956fbc52debe30d016e5ece9fd31.58%
  • e8a355d0e230f9489633fc29f0dfe12c8b710d271f72200fcf1b5e87e008e21211.24%
  • f2d15af8c894d512c943ffe4b5f0e1b8a2d96368006e9170d12e5762d247c5ad9.74%
  • a9008730b54778290d222afee9df023b7ca999df02252b5a75ba1e686507aede8.99%
  • b6cef48f0fbbd7a4b723cfb56622a10096387345a7c3ed29a2c06cf9846b7d136.21%
  • d10a1b215d2cd7f0dc1fe0b191f3f95c8975e143e4d42865b97e074c85afd8366%
  • 5f8fa161f424464d9b1177b0c90f6ca8dceaf314d62b3eeef1ef9932d408795d5.46%
  • 61f3bd29c28b64c20cb6124cad88743c295682a125b13f5ca2a9f90df5c01b323.53%
  • 9a362c199dbca067132354db12441b1176255799b39f6e421b4c6e2c4f3435013.32%
  • ec20f19c369766c3cf85756a4d92637290fcdd4fa0cc3b1133e8b2981ebe3f683.21%

Process Ancestry

Top Parents

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.