sgrmbroker.exe
Summary
System Guard Runtime Monitor Broker - part of Windows Defender System Guard for runtime attestation of system integrity.
sgrmbroker.exe is the 711th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 5,115 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System3297.49%
- C:\Windows\System32\Sgrm2.51%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- f9cbf1ff87d6f11920c4b7367ea2178bf13aa276c65d918950683983f268bc1f29.53%
- 2df8a183b3dca4de156433280fd69b49e7b20b474211d7125fbe256ca25d769c26.02%
- 9321991c441b095df15d24c8ae58f87ee5a3242532e8c023d0f78b2f96fee6b719%
- 5f2620441f717d8dd951d03f85f93232844358fa49b2d1f1b71a5adb0e38496d7.56%
- dfe2f8a137b596cdbe40b7299d0273f0d7305d8fdebbba86e1964d219e0ab9ea7.37%
- 10cb65499b6b424f5bd87db4dff192cef08243a761b4c42435576751ac72595b2.51%
- fffc540eab0035a188e47b8f2fa25bbe0c367a97b459bc0c440651388dd426472.47%
- 29dbf6e36c4cf437b4e4563ff466fcb53eab8fd49363398d5d399eddbec10ac02.45%
- a428e6c8f23145dc75a0425e56a6c2a687bb78548ac697ba20465876cca2deca0.74%
- 08e2c7d1c60ed2b6d9893341157b073d72776d471e68e4e00b63c4d0c7dd43c30.71%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe99.92%
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.