skypebackgroundhost.exe
Summary
Skype Background Host - handles background tasks for Skype notifications and sync.
skypebackgroundhost.exe is the 603rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 7,631 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.56.102.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.56.102.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c21.23%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.42.60.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c12.95%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.55.131.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c6.34%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.44.40.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c5.58%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.51.72.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c5.27%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.36.52.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c5.05%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.46.60.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c4.49%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.50.38.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c4.12%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.48.51.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c3.79%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.41.54.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c3.56%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- a988465cf785aad5cbe924f6dfb0c9696ac2fea04587b5aedbf243b7df6dabee28%
- 88534ebbd449c73c74ae8fbedf6732ad3e72b3fbdc9ca0e1978af380dbaefcf18.36%
- 4d215c2e32a39c5f5eeaf84d94c8af69c729189fa77ce90f21113deb200602b06.95%
- 7cea27ab7a1315caeebda1de6f743f8f90ed3201cc1f94f75d0f4ad0bc093b6b5.76%
- 819fcde087c3f43d6657248885fdc5570aa88adc1ed22671f1e5e85e4e391de85.44%
- ba3166db1b0ec4fa2dc564c8068021db70b3455ff3dc6fda6189ec33e537f6a95.01%
- 9814e1c01fb3abf911aa7e34a6fe7a9361c048199de70e818584ec0b608d44964.49%
- d1cc102a6f73c4c4a7d8eaf499810ec4143b869412851bb82812de223fb8196e4.42%
- f31db2ca44c7467f0ac512626f2d8636534ae08272dfd9d0ecf7f5ca6496ab774.09%
- 8da03596662ee0ed31906aa5bdddfcfface601515206330a5f2cee73b74c976f3.8%
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.