perfmon.exe
Summary
Resource and Performance Monitor
perfmon.exe is the 3037th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 91 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by resmon.exe.
3037th
most commonly executed Windows program
91
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 5898266df2c54e2f0555d97cc11fbf4707afe2e991b1a86c1ee7f14f9ca5fa4d24.66%
- 76396d7c9650a86a425fd68f9851d0c06ddf3eb808a548fcf0c02fad6253399f21.92%
- 99baeadbffd9c466f394b2223ebd092567f0ff0c1ea3bd6263b349140e7bf5da20.55%
- a39ca2a381b3fbf64e002df4c0d308cabe9fa57bef8cc39e0d0ccd7bacc8ae8c16.44%
- 85b315c8293f61e9462d832d2fb2d61dc1e900a36965d9a15b6f7c86cdadf7aa5.48%
- 5f041cff346fb37e5c5c9dab3c1272c76f8b5f579205170e97d2248d04a4ea0c4.11%
- ce13bbaa066872f4037e4e4e820efc40c04885551ce392a9d9196d320dd589b22.74%
- f6b6bfca5f7483b3140735f7753cefcf33265db3b7113ed015b9a37299c7f90f2.74%
- 94e0eceb1a5db9d3c32fc83015ac0cc58db8a5b3e2d3a190631607a0e6736e1b1.37%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- Taskmgr.exe55.81%
- userinit.exe32.56%
- resmon.exe11.63%
Top Parents
- resmon.exe59.34%
- explorer.exe30.77%
- perfmon.exe5.49%
- mmc.exe3.3%
- cmd.exe1.1%
Top Children
- perfmon.exe71.43%
- mmc.exe14.29%
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.