CredentialUIBroker.exe

by Microsoft
Operating System

Summary

Windows Credential UI Broker - displays the credential prompt dialog for UAC and authentication requests.

CredentialUIBroker.exe is the 475th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 12,814 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.

475th
most commonly executed Windows program
12,814
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Windows\System3299.98%
  • C:\Windows\SysWOW640.02%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • c14eef4f08b70fd8d0876d609e66e45bcfb30c4921db2a3482a914c2a7b9fc3429.53%
  • c243787526ec1f02f0bf747f214c2a346f017023b9d96ff124719f9bb71f1b4e11.51%
  • ecf9c9a036762968a4806adb5b23c9b6cfdfe8595a19a74dbfa0136a7ae6ff0710.86%
  • a0f468167c8e9d8fe0134c12aece39a5d974f6fda9f7f15f3013ffd0f87b28e410.07%
  • 03dd07485f097ab5281c3d748e2877f281b152dbc02385979c829dc466a522a98.08%
  • ed2c45ffd94f6087a9806f376fb1620f57ba029da628013525ccc4be03663d167.78%
  • 950f3629b5c8732b1e3c263239a6ccd87e93422e0d4f50a7b051b7b389a6fe646.13%
  • 2dcf110e73e5fc6dadeef47d3af597c3582135ba97b2ae1cf94de329d1d65fe65.2%
  • 46637205413a0a2d1906fcf12c31a0a7550140ec10e9e382170006b222034e443.83%
  • a9804ed800307e8e9d14d7909936521619acfa6ec714559963fc2dec0c3ce8b72.53%

Process Ancestry

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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.