vlc.exe
by VideoLAN
Media
Summary
VLC media player
vlc.exe is the 1633rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 545 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
1633rd
most commonly executed Windows program
545
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC62.57%
- C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC37.43%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1b8342c0048e13b323224c48caa9aec2952f3a93ed732c85f16091647591067550.28%
- 31f5e43e9283cf2469d8b3e51e7c28c132c6ecb0dab855df52cbf21d5394ae0b13.37%
- 309cde62f0f3744d89999ffe832b481da071252f833a1e6661216c59a290d47f5.84%
- 4b4a513cc62817d95dfa84139f1217a6af43bc2d1dbfb4dddc991ed5796e32d33.77%
- 607ea9d9621f8b124c89acf674072fcbc29c4a7655bf4c625a86a54f9756226a3.2%
- f2efe28873a596b0916edea1ee49add13de0905c1cf8db6c3c937f3be515b5bb2.82%
- 5c7edfad96fe400b5c08d5c49eacf61cc446566f40a24d7a66b36a18e08c968c2.45%
- 9a984ef9e04faa6b7299249efe32319e61f179210fc8c327a44b3e44326e7caf2.26%
- 1fcd04fe1a3d519c7d585216b414cd947d16997d77d81a2892821f588c6309372.07%
- 0b025b0990a19230c211c57bdabfdfde55c86ccdbf34743090089a5f3b6799901.88%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe73.2%
- explorer.exe11.05%
- svchost.exe10.5%
- winlogon.exe4.97%
- OpenWith.exe0.28%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe83.67%
- OpenWith.exe6.97%
- OUTLOOK.EXE6.97%
- iexplore.exe0.92%
- sihost.exe0.73%
- chrome.exe0.37%
- rundll32.exe0.37%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe9.09%
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.