VBoxHeadless.exe

by Oracle
Virtualization

Summary

VirtualBox headless VM runner

VBoxHeadless.exe is the 2436th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 180 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox and it is most often launched by VBoxHeadless.exe.

2436th
most commonly executed Windows program
180
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • d8d0cf68089551106fffcee1ac7cc7fe1a82bd64839f77e525cff04b1905145f81.67%
  • 1025b65fee804438b56f7bc40542104e6376d162bee7106fec201252bd7b8f4c16.67%
  • b4ac362ace3668e274c1202dd7df485d9e41ed8b42027d22950ff113e1a6d8d11.67%

Process Ancestry

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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.