ekrn.exe

by ESET
Endpoint Security

Summary

ESET Kernel Service - core protection service for ESET endpoint security.

ekrn.exe is the 928th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 2,558 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Endpoint Antivirus\x86 and it is most often launched by services.exe.

928th
most commonly executed Windows program
2,558
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Endpoint Antivirus\x8669.59%
  • C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Endpoint Security\x8623.3%
  • C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Security6.1%
  • C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Endpoint Antivirus0.63%
  • C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Endpoint Security0.39%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 314e519166503b32286267b5f948814e6a508c0a1b14dde1e3b6d8e380e6380252.97%
  • 6e2be95204265dd17a31734c1e906795e2cbe1a449434f1e5b1698b9d6c6199a39.91%
  • e43cf891632434b035143e57b0cb6629d7d934199a788e18e07a5c94531c76176.49%
  • a545214135da70a8719012c5351b39c6283556b7a524f7c265cf12fd6a595a380.39%
  • a011c806e57c727ca8dc30c2d83fbfdeeffe96878392c3f353b7e187f72811b30.23%

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.