SearchHost.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Windows Search host process
SearchHost.exe is the 1691st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 498 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
1691st
most commonly executed Windows program
498
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 2425ad108d30978f301c72a2c3e83bdcfed7d42290ed49d3fdbae30ce0a09b1417.27%
- 8756e718b42e6c32590fb4fd111d11ef3f2bc02bf01dd44323c9e0f6ef88139712.45%
- 8de8566091bb68c60bcf19fa036fd6791fbe43d3db4bad06b01057f3f5e5940210.44%
- b18321f95d75b3c5f31c79ead3b65b808bf19c59d29c27cbc83361f4fbcff85c10.04%
- 19223495a5c7b8d23b8f2b1a8350b7fd630a2173892c545cd6302567826aa3918.43%
- 4064588224b536fc3448e729215d4f8ae566deeabbba2ad3ffb20ebfbc544d5c6.22%
- 2b40e610448e6614294535332d3e25ce2ff63ac9de79b4d9326947a11cb74b205.62%
- 2e1d5c4177e5cd03a3f0822a054b862f0a22cbe9f098ba6bddb9ad49bf16adfe4.22%
- 3822876eb7668e1918a6550f0b3078ebe5ee13d7b1614e641ffc3e8fca01fb9d4.22%
- 2551d1b7b0f97a08a27295ba2358acf17ad6a38aacb4ba4a5c54c47b14e020c14.02%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe60%
- conhost.exe20%
- schtasks.exe20%
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.