lsm.exe
by Microsoft
Operating Systemmedium risk
Summary
Local Session Manager (legacy, pre-Windows 8.1)
lsm.exe is the 1583rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 596 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by wininit.exe.
1583rd
most commonly executed Windows program
596
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- d205b2c163e78ab42a5d67d7664ef6b75ea0374ff0924467d624f9db0611f0ad95.51%
- d8e0e326d720dc5155b32f5fee5239e6e92e75caae307064c8eca52a88369d7d4.49%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- smss.exe99.49%
- svchost.exe0.34%
- TrustedInstaller.exe0.17%
Top Parents
- wininit.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.