pnputil.exe
by Microsoft
System Utility
Summary
Plug and Play driver management utility
pnputil.exe is the 2232nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 231 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by NPFInstall.exe.
2232nd
most commonly executed Windows program
231
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System3299.26%
- C:\...0.74%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- edbcdb0db1a80f9b18c8dcddce51ba4fb1cc469b3fa7495bb72b2f555930640736.98%
- 47ddc47f579cdf2afcd1fe1fa1fa4241746775273cf82bff02388e20aec1554a17.76%
- 008e3ef11d666d456902b267c192aaa57adc69ca9b6680c6136043695be5644b13.14%
- 38f65ccc55e9c28bfb8e44a11a8295f3dd9f73de29f67ff5e043f0bd5a2003ef5.6%
- 8cabe68f5a1052b5e45d139ea645c7c66b0041ecb9938d918647ba18f4bc38d05.11%
- d11ea7611a503979c30531eb7f8e5c6f75c874b09b590f8f6b12da84f6272fa25.11%
- e2ebb1d695e03706fe5cc4c38f0580c5428d639ba287342d0276134c49fad7314.87%
- 51c17989c97f47a47733e13980f6bb9f23df74bb7155bc1eed4359dda897b4ab3.89%
- e3c30b0ccebdf4a24a1c7c6d87df024deeeb47e5dd979cb070c9b2f285ea01e81.46%
- fd6ba6200eaebe6598759b5470290ae20dc36d03b218175971085cc9fc4c12c21.46%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- msiexec.exe70.73%
- explorer.exe11.22%
- NPFInstall.exe3.41%
Top Parents
- NPFInstall.exe35.06%
- msiexec.exe16.45%
- cmd.exe14.29%
- installer.exe11.69%
- setup.exe2.16%
- rundll32.exe1.3%
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.