SurfaceService.exe
by Microsoft
Driver/Hardware
Summary
Microsoft Surface device service
SurfaceService.exe is the 1834th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 391 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
1834th
most commonly executed Windows program
391
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System3287.98%
- C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\surfaceservicenulldriver.inf_amd64_7f8f2fd8e50954c46.65%
- C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\surfaceservicenulldriver.inf_amd64_c723868f17fda1833.32%
- C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\surfaceservicenulldriver.inf_amd64_bc0ad7ca5c8884601.53%
- C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\surfaceservicenulldriver.inf_amd64_5010fd9a6f8fa5e70.51%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9f60a096f460f474d8240e4cb85643ff0ea6fd1d0a398a42f1b3887ae9ee611287.72%
- 3002570ff565c6d40909d7bc704b69a62c06c5ddee1380a53c312c262ca47ae26.65%
- 8454d291faacd0617f4a22d9092fe5136dfde9662d15d4bc2fe99c1d174596d13.32%
- 5985c3b9f275d332a854ed9443b67df5ae2ffea8708b6d75b6d134a03a9dd6491.53%
- f55d0f34f9344f82d52a65ece21ee5de86ccecfb4c8374cb0eab1ebbc0ce1ed80.51%
- b53eeca80695665d1c193f69006b9c43ff17ac49e0697b600f2f75ec0dab261c0.26%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- sc.exe98.56%
- wermgr.exe1.15%
- provtool.exe0.29%
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.