wifitask.exe
Summary
Windows WiFi Task handles background WiFi connectivity tasks including network profile management and connection maintenance.
wifitask.exe is the 148th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 117,054 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)
- 3f61513138fc7db66fb977304212636422a018ff5792fad255909209cb2bd65035.4%
- fc0c4e1e8f61ef690b4795efb91b1450d2f009f439d3e12230d57abafd25c07a16.11%
- 674979583626b3a688b84bdcbe60b53f731f619527264119a8dce847a634bca713.22%
- b4713d9e3c13342c9293bf24998815e9de7170e1daa8db19ec27a015c6be0b6613.02%
- 547911f78c46262c1acb51a0db2d37eb5a882439f6230739ba5c4b219348783312.55%
- 498a895e2f8eea31ac9c41050dd55cd83eca881f58e104b21de018408fd0b9cf5.5%
- 4bb291a2026b233d67672f2469b202f01886e2ce64f926da663e6b14995f40431.15%
- 11f86b078b100eb7414b4a715fdf13e4e732a28812228c37d2dbfc8a651c9ee41.01%
- ceb6046d4ba716c7def26af9054e01094314abeca1094fadd7ae857cfdfa7db50.92%
- 1e16706ef43131a1fcc3535cd5bb9e10c2f423e585d88b1701c7c5bd07233ca40.75%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.exe70%
- chrome.exe20%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
Security Analysis
What does wifitask.exe normally do?
Part of Microsoft software. Normal operation.
When is wifitask.exe suspicious?
Running from unexpected paths.
How do attackers abuse wifitask.exe?
Not commonly abused.
Detection guidance
No specific detection needed.
False positive notes
Normal Microsoft operation.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.