openvpnserv.exe
Summary
OpenVPN Service - background service managing OpenVPN tunnel connections.
openvpnserv.exe is the 1020th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,960 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos SSL VPN Client\bin and it is most often launched by services.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos SSL VPN Client\bin96.48%
- C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\bin3.47%
- D:\Program Files\OpenVPN\bin0.05%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9e8a6c8bbcae18a2dbfd4e823b64c075d88fd71f662d08773b01e0b198eb2bd943.78%
- 3ff440459c635d71dd4defe047dc85b9a08b0cdd1c5189c5e5f5f121540502eb30.2%
- 235dd6e10104785b4e41a7ef53c586504671b54571b7eae898f58f1d6301e0a37.09%
- f991b66d9be1f179a0943c5e034b67c5decf23e740d847be7698b50399bf9c746.68%
- 86ec4c38c4ab12f3a3696e94d02558ddc0100657c0f6b8d28582d42aa90360153.83%
- 44bec9e2d2321af0727c6bb947f27f6232dab935faa3582051264f009d2f0bb52.76%
- dcd4341ba1b1efaa4a8c30b0dca23ed4061b7b41079e88c236e3e3097789f4f31.84%
- a19a41f5ad7136ccfe30456bd4c1d3598615114dd3a1843000371b09b8b095161.48%
- 97b8edd54bbd343879605d9e69a296083e67781f8b66475b3c68bba744564b9b0.82%
- 5acb3f284e83579ae6b5eba087ba2e13f89a848e018638e2f642518078ffbbfe0.61%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe95.36%
- explorer.exe1.95%
- chrome.exe1.03%
- firefox.exe0.92%
- iexplore.exe0.46%
- browser_broker.exe0.23%
- Uninstall.exe0.06%
Top Parents
- services.exe99.89%
Top Children
- openvpn.exe83.99%
- conhost.exe9.56%
- ipconfig.exe6.22%
- pcaui.exe0.12%
- regsvr32.exe0.12%
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.