dns.exe
Summary
Domain Name System (DNS) Server
dns.exe is the 3023rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 93 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
3023rd
most commonly executed Windows program
93
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 850ba2eb7457c06634515de98f477fd21a3ffb4d6fb5d47d9c1363f4c3956fb329.03%
- 9d8cfea6daa4ffb0ab24d6cfd6a4cb96d5e1032d62b11b3ccb57ce237a1a476011.83%
- 29506367ce66959e4f04f2d4e1731bf459191a48a7df8b5cba3bdfbf94c00bb510.75%
- 387cd1b305306e6646c75cfbfea50acacb0409993afc7287beae57a6a317d5629.68%
- 128dac306016577f44847e257a4349fb023f5ded93f71e03fb67cc322663877f7.53%
- 334c784f6764d4c24814c4aab63e1e7497271a6b0949c462d56c995a1a9234d44.3%
- 968dcc775437c8dadcc477ff2ff0e03007c46d6725609327d436d1d06b2369c94.3%
- e1ec23002e06f4ecd9f16560cf2c298595124757fde4110c5884c242d0e774593.23%
- ed817e76b27a96d718f6430cc186b71d84658e804e63169b9daab49961a115d23.23%
- f15934414c363eb90db01463988b9b58d58a554cfc871c22c52fdc43f2c809213.23%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.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.