cvtres.exe
Summary
Windows Resource to Object Converter - converts .res resource files to COFF object format during compilation.
cvtres.exe is the 359th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 24,257 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 and it is most often launched by csc.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.5072737.07%
- C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.3031934.11%
- C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.5072720.09%
- C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.303198.61%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\bin\Hostx86\x860.06%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd640.03%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin0.02%
- D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\bin\HostX86\x860.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1fe531eac592b480aa4bd16052b909c3431434f17e7ae163d248355558ce43a624.58%
- 6c6d2a806ab90287905fc445637d05b50fa39169069967cf5fd32b3e1ec1240b10.05%
- adbf5d9b3a627f851ff2a4e86aece779cd8857b151d8ec480342a5226e03f0b98.06%
- 892e2e9582c6dbb00eddc598ab44a61cb06a8e9e68c60cd8554131afb725272b7.02%
- 54315fd2b69c678eb7d8c145f683c15f41fa9f7b9abf7bf978667df4158f43c36.67%
- e4dbdbf7888ea96f3f8aa5c4c7f2bcf6e57d724dd8194fe5f35b673c6ef724ea6.62%
- 8649df38276968d1417ec064360339610ff644491c87eb8ac2b2e67e7cbe47c95.52%
- 4ba7699b92ceefd96bdaaa31d4c447b0fe14b4273f9f19f1398354c9634b47765.16%
- 8c8cd0c7b0c492b57f6be76c0cfb898649ab8897009d1f50fc14f367647577b54.97%
- 92d9978a8e5ba78aceb9477d45f98cfad4f61d531ca623c76824086a04efa9f03.6%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- VpxClient.exe16.22%
- powershell.exe6.64%
- DeliveryService.exe6.41%
- hppusg.exe4.75%
- sdiagnhost.exe4.52%
- setup100.exe2.44%
- LTClient.exe2.2%
Top Parents
- csc.exe98.38%
- vbc.exe1.45%
- link.exe0.12%
- conhost.exe<0.01%
- dxgiadaptercache.exe<0.01%
- SearchUI.exe<0.01%
- svchost.exe<0.01%
- taskhostw.exe<0.01%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe100%
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.