SkypeHost.exe
Summary
Skype Host - background service for Skype UWP application.
SkypeHost.exe is the 567th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 8,738 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.1815.209.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.1815.209.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c15.59%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.1813.286.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c14.99%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.1803.279.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c10.88%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.1811.248.1000_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c9.17%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.1807.264.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c8.98%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.1811.248.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c6.97%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_2.15.20002.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe6.1%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.1815.210.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c5.08%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.1809.217.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c4.49%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.13.274.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c3.19%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 71185e590cf85cf8ed8571a43058df7e9f608a14c8985cb11c7d510e4142656616.15%
- 33460d60dcab882f764b3ecf7dd13f8c267951111f62f0c95e9f99e9e772556115.62%
- 8ffafcdbed6de332e144c56640eaeb394db3c96e52566fa189204bf169ce876015.05%
- 6b5cdc439874f7f0e4e590a271752abbb4560fe2c8fe05f808f3580b8b4529ac10.88%
- 27449ce42e865b1c2cbda124fc986c53e259698af36df525e1cbd76d8f2dd8ef9.02%
- 687acc353e04c4ee5570ba070639e7eebf3f1c75233f147775db17a938a5aa386.92%
- 1b7bf9bc17f25cc87377fd03868be63f2b09bbf70c9904cf4665cd307bb2115b6.12%
- fac420ae188928495feb492864126894b348915d95e969a3b202543adf52a2774.5%
- 777da43fa240f71d4be95c38c8f33aae04e373f52962eb2b10f8c42853119ac13.21%
- 0c7a247cb6016f41b93feca237a5e03e5fdc3d7c47542f74fa669da8f3c3adf42.7%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- WerFault.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.