SIHClient.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Windows Server-Initiated Healing Client - scans for and repairs Windows Update component corruption.
SIHClient.exe is the 197th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 75,543 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by upfc.exe.
197th
most commonly executed Windows program
75,543
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 50b0f23134dc14d19a524bacff266e87b67605a9faccaaa75f85a2e431f7360816.88%
- e5df494bb53e768c2cbc5c98f3e12713b9020fa5a34d3abae56dbca737a47f4d9.6%
- 4b1e5e00a5cd56d1a2eb243ec6277ef6b82936ff3315c07e0d329d027357299b9.25%
- 4e690a5e5262954f6647080e93b2043780744c88dd157c2f1fb0170dd3e8c8c47.97%
- 8f0d59f251400d5897523658666b7ca2c497f69b034e71e8bd44065de07ae1bf4.82%
- a4079b6a246f5a4f5a11c099ff3e20b9a9639c8d68d7de4e75eb7ed6b7caf1dc4.76%
- 4cff17dcf6c5270963ae4710f08c64979549bfb2f554a4988eb121e820ff68173.36%
- c99bf5336b16035dabfbc605903b52f01e9b03e86c36bf779b220423d7f72b923.32%
- d7b55791c9a452d57e596307dd6fbfcaeba8cc6238d9ae039742a6f56be61da33.02%
- 274a9e80a5848d339c1fdb308ef67b255841b698e680719a5a9bee893f0e34f02.92%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe99.92%
- remsh.exe0.08%
Top Parents
- upfc.exe58.14%
- svchost.exe41.8%
- cmd.exe0.02%
- conhost.exe<0.01%
- dasHost.exe<0.01%
- unsecapp.exe<0.01%
Top Children
- conhost.exe99.98%
- mscorsvw.exe0.01%
- powershell.exe<0.01%
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.