vmtoolsd.exe
by VMware / Broadcom
Virtualization
Summary
VMware Tools daemon (guest OS agent)
vmtoolsd.exe is the 1586th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 594 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
1586th
most commonly executed Windows program
594
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- e43e1920d4159960940c3c6b4f35970d7d5f0db8d3b875bf1545f9df7cde441737.88%
- 01bd6862343f5bc7420846a948bccce4dd65ed33a402f94090bb5d7e52412c7221.89%
- ed9fb40c3cb5ba0a9ac3ade80b503f5d7128016c75852e612a6c838f04401ea319.36%
- e1c95e790d7a77dd48c18dc28b6476fce18e56f4c37d35af76045244902e134e7.74%
- 22b6138739cae658d7a8e636c9c88ccad9881077c1083c846195dfb82380df515.05%
- 2195b4f8bca2f6b119a41fd50ef6a9d8e0f6ed41cc9d561e1f0e4c79e25c35483.37%
- ef3b76dba429e0ef63b7a444d4e768930c0bf38cc66aec240e898bea714539633.37%
- cf704d948bd5efec0d134496619cf504d8b8413935ed0731a6c445277912f5481.18%
- d6d9f041da6f724bf69f48bbee3bf41295a0ed4dca715b1908c5f35bc8034d530.17%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe54.13%
- userinit.exe41.97%
- rdpshell.exe2.96%
- msiexec.exe0.94%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe48.82%
- services.exe46.97%
- runonce.exe3.2%
- msiexec.exe1.01%
Top Children
- VMwareResolutionSet.exe57.02%
- cmd.exe28.93%
- net.exe11.24%
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.