SystemSettingsBroker.exe
Summary
Windows System Settings Broker - mediates between the Settings app and system components requiring elevated access.
SystemSettingsBroker.exe is the 737th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 4,675 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 0f993b518510755e0d5167eed3747c1191032cfa671cbb434fc62a84b102b93031.32%
- 74baa0356653c52781561a9d172fa1b954af55d7a393bc8be60c4a68c7497ec026.06%
- db8f77e10c15bfd89a1dde32f972fb9a645ecf22dd3166bb487dbbcc448284539.26%
- 0fe9631be461029b533a86df1c2e72be2539668333cb24c116e1c98344f26c346.79%
- 7744422610c4f1e497d12c25ff32958991aa4e43185caf385e58804857e106b04.93%
- c8074acd933d5b2d206525ce3dd969a1bf55b50c0681c27187b60c1d86d9adcc4.83%
- 18fdb4262a2a83f9f8d58e7a4370b18ab73dc0c89e0ad12264bfac266144ab264.54%
- 707ad52f04d0f8a4e9b1c383d6663938a353cfb440f47c820ec49987a595ebea3.61%
- b8c72044231801f90ab0cde90c54695db7a5ca7b1590222a80e59b7d3f52d9c73.25%
- b691eb21738821d466dd40d0bde325d28361fd8a9ce793268549265ba32d95a12.63%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- rasautou.exe55.1%
- WerFault.exe44.9%
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.