SnippingTool.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Windows Snipping Tool - screen capture utility for taking screenshots and annotating them.
SnippingTool.exe is the 486th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 12,545 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
486th
most commonly executed Windows program
12,545
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System3296.01%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2303.17.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool3.43%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2305.26.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.33%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2306.43.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.07%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2302.20.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.06%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2307.48.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.06%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2304.21.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.05%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2104.2.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SnippingTool0.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 2b0f7420956db8c761f5b1fbb0d9549dfd50e5344420197e205adc1e90996a2939.55%
- 76610fec5aabe77401425bc8a437f58e9307b636197ffd048ece9e02e955f88d25.26%
- 4e30a8c88c755944145f2bc6c935ee5107c56832772f2561229e20ceab1d10d29.76%
- 627626fd008ca6916084d9d1bc693e723e444e44b84755ea75cc8c57432250886.34%
- 6635e48ad3f02fe5cac9669f974d27ec2fa77b1f6b519f09616630b6531a6ca84.14%
- 83be001996cd4d9e5a1a8cd130e17e5b5ee81c9b5cf1b9d9196d8a39fbf7506d3.69%
- dac46a37d2ad8fe1b31f290ceeba9560f8e7bb9648dc8285d1d1e2d96e9799e13.49%
- 9f769e52ac15ae1d0b6a3da293f612ac24303882b1d49ef7a5105ed1b24210d31.93%
- e85959f25f0b055272c1ee513b6a00abe966c691def9354e1fdd94f3eed30c1c1.19%
- 890884c7fe7d037e6debd21d1877e9c9c5e7790cdba007ddb219ae6a55667f781.18%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe97.11%
- winlogon.exe1.42%
- WerFault.exe0.44%
- tphkload.exe0.43%
- OneDrive.exe0.11%
- googledrivesync.exe0.03%
- SnippingTool.exe0.02%
- HxTsr.exe0.01%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe96.81%
- sihost.exe2.01%
- shtctky.exe0.37%
- svchost.exe0.33%
- WerFault.exe0.02%
Top Children
- CPC10Q.EXE71.43%
- crashpad_handler.exe23.38%
- WerFault.exe3.9%
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.