hkcmd.exe
by Intel
Driver/Hardware
Summary
Intel Graphics Hotkey command module
hkcmd.exe is the 1367th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 915 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
1367th
most commonly executed Windows program
915
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 57aab030eef6e1cafd304969d762890c779822f8d9660d44829e86fb7a75cc2130.25%
- ba8fa7dcfad8396c7a2db583ff6118361f959040837215fd5198d8d0a4d7e9b622.37%
- 94193898bc2c150c375a2d0be51d5704c75ad58487eb5fa4e5a638aa657f54c919.29%
- 80a8c6a376c61658aad52502b939e12e2b375fd52850582f059f826c58a8d1e918.72%
- 765d94dacfbf11a303e15bf96396546f76b04f673b6bb987a5c45104459e82cd2.85%
- 17183695d4c06015d68e26199ff0fcb3aefb0b5be80b08f9158fed4f3ff4f8fa2.17%
- ab258e60f45545afc175fcc03f9c559c0ae33f491d2c23675d13b614860709ed1.83%
- a17d7a56627ecbe7d23e634a9e726ba2e3682a7eb75659ae68a426ff2954c7171.48%
- f9a55421e1f2b3690d9e42df3c34250bde889a98c3c6ed200109c0ba9e9421f70.57%
- ecc60baa7d21ef97cda17f45277fbfe52b2169155ddb157e34a7ae2ec1bec1850.23%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe99.86%
- explorer.exe0.14%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe99.89%
- igfxpers.exe0.11%
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.