vdsldr.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Virtual Disk Service Loader - loads VDS providers for disk management operations.
vdsldr.exe is the 169th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 95,649 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
169th
most commonly executed Windows program
95,649
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System3299.99%
- C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-virtualdiskservice_31bf3856ad364e35_6.3.9600.17415_none_5bf5cd86ce6c0f350.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 43f0af018dc498619222cf16e1c9bde2f7710732686dc361e4d692b7efb4ddf929.97%
- 5a810630cd80776c18530c14e5002a60e934a8505fb1a1ac9a753c944e71c82722.19%
- da5e0acb7ef7d6dcb11507da9c8fe224ef76a57a27caf84afa679fb9e1408ec817.63%
- a471f9588d2b95334f0107711f84ed0081db27bb8799e6c48710a667a37e1a907.27%
- ca51bec400924928e2a5946ff3af89f26b3bb4c3f0087fce45903af290ea16b76.86%
- 0a4ca31848d7513f97f72d0292f5bbee1ca409aaffcacde5369e12003b34118d3.39%
- e86f443622119bbdc0947257e1e826d47488c86bdf399d3839384e32e0c477042.6%
- ddc920acfdb76dd6dfdc0cae7714c1d2995fd6042d1fc2efb1cc1df9478fa26f2.33%
- f7fcc64885eb53ca11b79d1e55bbb646e8132df3f2791d8fe158cb8dc83e15d22.01%
- f417f52b06f41b96e135758380e28d74c150828e046a47b9e94098f1b55ef88b1.53%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe99.94%
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.