netcfg.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Windows Network Configuration utility - installs and configures network components.
netcfg.exe is the 637th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 6,769 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by msiexec.exe.
637th
most commonly executed Windows program
6,769
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System3299.87%
- C:\Program Files\ShrewSoft\VPN Client0.12%
- E:\Program Files\ShrewSoft\VPN Client0.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1c3909afcf8838b11c5a79b22db5615a2cc8ed55500cbd34d6bd8591395b896691.12%
- f4e138c85c5c50306cfd36457edd549ca295ba3b2b60064a485116dcba17f8b66.24%
- 4f65068872e08684f59763e166600fb10d6a4ba418dd558ea5d51676e4b240df0.59%
- 78e7e21c82727efbfc07df85eca9ea6fdf4c469eb8fdc78e14b2ebfa33285fc00.56%
- 86ae098bde1d1b9541fc66d8e066327b73bd220218e75dd2c26fa1d50a585c340.38%
- e649b99473c25ca0ccf65c447d1bac927f5e582d17ea52ede5b16047a0c032ae0.3%
- 48eba978046235dc13400a1b54de1f44b4bba263154e70ca49221ed459f04b000.25%
- 576af9ec1851c108891b1d99c626d2eecee781250ab163ac5759f4b121c35eb50.15%
- 6820988b6804a05c7fc2f674961275861163395c2d73f6ad4a450f49282cc7350.15%
- 62d3f543035f868c4705e5eaa0eff2c3594656086678749215aeeb789ae00c3b0.13%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- msiexec.exe40.11%
- svchost.exe34.76%
- services.exe20.32%
- explorer.exe3.21%
- firefox.exe0.53%
- Uninstall.exe0.53%
- userinit.exe0.53%
Top Parents
- msiexec.exe91.91%
- TiWorker.exe6.06%
- TrustedInstaller.exe0.65%
- explorer.exe0.01%
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.