Rocky Raccoon

SharedServiceHost.exe

by Microsoft
Operating System

Summary

Windows Server Essentials shared service host for small business server features

SharedServiceHost.exe is the 2480th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 170 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin and it is most often launched by services.exe.

2480th
most commonly executed Windows program
170
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin91.76%
  • C:\Windows\System32\Essentials8.24%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 3c7f520cc45899679289eac35f3fb6fdc8992d19b9a2229870cd56f786fdd6f091.76%
  • 47681ce83270121365e3546970dc72c0cf358c1ace417f847ad65bc66addc1b27.65%
  • c8f90586ecd1229b96d18ba8d9b546304d8ab835a6588b4d4317ec932398803d0.59%

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.