pmfexe.exe

by Various
Monitoring

Summary

Performance Monitor Framework Executor - executes performance monitoring collection tasks.

pmfexe.exe is the 400th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 18,682 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 2\568 and it is most often launched by MonitoringHost.exe.

400th
most commonly executed Windows program
18,682
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 2\56818.14%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 8\4510.79%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 6\4510.78%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 2\3786.88%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 5\3786.88%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 7\3786.63%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 1\3825.41%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 7\454.74%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 9\454.12%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State\Monitoring Host Temporary Files 7\5453.74%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 238707b1c57d8bf2eea57bb5781abeca024f8ddbc370da70ebe2a1f894e3f36691.56%
  • 0a8a6e29f43fbbfc2e36672bbcd41b9baf03ab4890cea844a4f4ec33ac1754fd8.44%

Process Ancestry

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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.