mpengine.exe
by Microsoft
Endpoint Security
Summary
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine core
mpengine.exe is the 1329th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 993 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\ProgramData\... and it is most often launched by MsMpEng.exe.
1329th
most commonly executed Windows program
993
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\ProgramData\...100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 47415996dff467c47dcb9e1ecab524b3e7db071bdc7b0f10753f2ae1569a55d484.29%
- 29e18b8c5af8f6fd47f7688f6deda19e6ad774fe9761521b270fdf8199478e0b1.31%
- 256c271d77faf0628df11a2e2ddecff3d8784c44fbbf8322505497db2348ca541.21%
- 361b906772e08c8678dcbc637e02369797e19a2b3a7f497864ab828129d277131.11%
- 4c759256226e6df21aca06d31e8d910cf3559639eed5e1f547587370982a411a1.11%
- 62b6e7e2f67f40f837f075278a0422cfd69a9e42ade602a402147565f4d48c8a1.11%
- 0facf44c4351942c3a336fad3c1609821078d649bae853a5ac0db1bbea572f481.01%
- 1da5b858228f5d8290abd462ed2329d69d685981de4c7990e1dde843ea4bf6111.01%
- 22dedf38e1a1df5c2dbd7150d3fe54184cd5540bb9390720de780a1cd162ccd41.01%
- 9b71d58d9d839d3596cedb46708384db386962552541fbb1fdb96e9b2a8660f91.01%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- MsMpEng.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.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.