MpRecovery.exe

by Microsoft
Security Tool

Summary

Microsoft Malware Protection recovery utility for repairing Windows Defender installations

MpRecovery.exe is the 1985th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 315 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\Temp\... and it is most often launched by MpSigStub.exe.

1985th
most commonly executed Windows program
315
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Windows\Temp\...75.24%
  • C:\Users\...0.32%
  • C:\Windows\SERVIC~1\NETWOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\...0.32%
  • C:\Windows\SystemTemp\0193E21E-75F2-4731-8810-8FC9A088E09B0.32%
  • C:\Windows\SystemTemp\060FD937-FF74-4ADD-AC26-C4A6F3DDA0A10.32%
  • C:\Windows\SystemTemp\0C49FC6A-C76B-462E-BA02-D642B5CA5D620.32%
  • C:\Windows\SystemTemp\0F61B63D-AF15-4DB1-AFF0-C1C1FE46A49D0.32%
  • C:\Windows\SystemTemp\1387BA00-7AC2-42E8-A193-8C1D99F8D2A20.32%
  • C:\Windows\SystemTemp\184A66D5-ABE3-4934-884C-5DDDBAD7E3970.32%
  • C:\Windows\SystemTemp\189360DB-C76A-4DD1-A4E9-2CFEE78882C90.32%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 223378a2be014933e45ccde61070388e7e7b1eda8e7d7ce3fb1eade89bc11ce318.41%
  • 81f62daa694f19d3ad987a90870da73a520edafb6755d2467cf7e1f507b8ed6517.14%
  • 8114ff9e5516629863e9fdb026ea0d017f5286188693f9a0d964e4d825bae92215.24%
  • 09f60c56f2a9cec6c801d45dbe293d5323819ad99748ed91b629385f4b5bab2d10.48%
  • e359ab673e24698cccfb783a2d840e428b910940659e589dcc5fd316ecff18c97.3%
  • 3776315e3c8591af33b059ad0adf0169f5c7405135253c6add63afc6be67349e2.86%
  • 180dc2c61389bc1e18088bdd4be921bf62fe8c9f5b84feb82fcb54299ef8ed842.54%
  • 4a74c6777223d0564c5bf9ada06e03c9febaa5e76135cf6e1160a9ee88eb0fd92.54%
  • 795c5116ce1e6bc74a97471aeb30c06bd74273fd734723b8c43f5aff60c3e9e22.22%
  • 7aabd8217f1d9aa090b2628c22883571d4ce832c406b4194c398002bbcb55f902.22%

Process Ancestry

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.