ismserv.exe

Summary

Windows NT Intersite Messaging Service

ismserv.exe is the 3007th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 95 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.

3007th
most commonly executed Windows program
95
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Windows\System32100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 4acd708f92f63c90c08c3d9aa9b9d6ac00ff4be86b01bafdd89d954fc94327bf40%
  • 29bdf4d2040d24e02b830a272d02cf29f19fd4e1a0f54f22bcc76301a0bfd26f35.79%
  • 187e6325f92016791c02258c368afa01808ed74af5675e8158862ca9c5da9d3013.68%
  • dd3c2d051e37f31d9f1d91f6e4aaf0c018c6843f4fac3b93666c15fbaeedec0210.53%

Process Ancestry

Top Grandparents

Top Parents

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.