sessionmsg.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Windows Session Messaging utility
sessionmsg.exe is the 2114th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 272 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
2114th
most commonly executed Windows program
272
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 4f162db6af3d885a51c2a9d67b1263c4f0bb091472891f7070b2eeddfdd99a3450.74%
- 0a3c8caf440e88bb22c91e29fb5c1a9ebc9b3baf651005f140cdc04768eb113a23.16%
- b991cdf9570eb80e53d7a3a702073637af3f9a7f5eeafe4a4c61ff948a68232420.59%
- 554b5f4a3aef5fda911c391e27707d8b3ce629dd3e75ffdc7a5d6cb7fe34d9681.84%
- 6bf37a4647440df35bfd39db6134b391b7880b5361778c68eee926f1af9186401.84%
- bfe37dd668055d3a22c5ec91fbd81c28e6a2410c1621fdf73c1b7b54876aa2bb1.1%
- 20247e34c5139fa1ef689c134148b2373be2d1a1e1a568950d9641826f6a1d4e0.37%
- 8e75c9e26821f064e9b74af98c932289130695022bfa385ac0cbc2b78b9d54390.37%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.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.