lync.exe
Summary
Skype for Business (formerly Lync) - enterprise communication client for chat, voice, and video calls.
lync.exe is the 392nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 19,409 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16 and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office1675.48%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office1617.06%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office165.32%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office161.14%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office150.71%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office150.11%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office150.1%
- C:\...0.09%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 74c66f7751ddc5c3718a9a55ef480d27c6b2fab26fabc7db540fe09cde6f8e4c4.96%
- 295167530243c10290b9d56c6d7f14215056b1693834c855f533ad1b31e7fc284.84%
- 0a75dd73e35234502117c109aed5173e992833d1af6b1906aac653d80a29d69d4.83%
- 09dbcb445ac5c426ef37191c8776be81836f6b7efe6b629799373b51deda5cc94.73%
- 2db5dbb2ffa392fbeefc7a1021d0dcf94150567247283b76af63d6d952e1bc174.62%
- b8404e2e49bd1b0b3ac5f53aefa731a4470a1ef47dbc56a5db5d9101ede73d1e4.55%
- 2ebf3a1ed03e4b82e622e8ab062501db18ed6ea859faac1d555ccd7030c772f64.03%
- f535c37a924a7a39412b6e5d87c3f65f704521df0ebdc6d85f620f0f802060eb3.42%
- f9213830b18bb357613e14b594a58cbc6b0d2cfdbc398fb415ab93d1f9a205343%
- 72ae086d8023c63ca9f67e277ef7456e762c9817ec7aa07b51649d842e9988c82.71%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe89.34%
- services.exe5.34%
- explorer.exe3.17%
- lync.exe0.41%
- OUTLOOK.EXE0.38%
- winlogon.exe0.31%
- svchost.exe0.2%
- WerFault.exe0.12%
- launcher.exe0.07%
- powershell.exe0.03%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe89.15%
- svchost.exe6.24%
- OfficeClickToRun.exe1.94%
- OfficeC2RClient.exe0.53%
- chrome.exe0.5%
- cmd.exe0.43%
- DWWIN.EXE0.4%
- OUTLOOK.EXE0.27%
- WerFault.exe0.22%
- RuntimeBroker.exe0.11%
Top Children
- lynchtmlconv.exe80.22%
- chrome.exe10.99%
- firefox.exe1.93%
- OfficeC2RClient.exe0.99%
- WerFault.exe0.46%
- launcher.exe0.36%
- iexplore.exe0.35%
- WINWORD.EXE0.21%
- EXCEL.EXE0.2%
- AcroRd32.exe0.18%
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.