wimserv.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
WIM filter service for mounting and extracting Windows Imaging Format files
wimserv.exe is the 1666th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 516 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by setuphost.exe.
1666th
most commonly executed Windows program
516
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System3299.81%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\amd64\DISM0.19%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 4b329502d0aae31a4d05bf85dd709bdb3d0cd3cb1bd96d859313d68778a81c3d15.55%
- d2ea673663df136ecbe6d1dab6013e4359b4996ef499618bccfb297080d1187015.35%
- 122c8db999fe33983d76e5c84ff8ff66340da5defa31f42ac5e256a3b477431012.99%
- 958419e84b173bf13f68b1e69610fcc89d6703c8a253d5da31d28b85758ab4286.1%
- 96f67682aff88f597bd00b999a6c62529c456ee72b3cd1f89cb7d319b5bc13e34.53%
- 988dcba8f7af5d47f54f5fc33c92ea6a08d740caa4034f5ee027c4545c4225493.54%
- de34a88e6ff13f709276ebfffb6534c9b97e74e32ec167b3f115b20f68577eba3.54%
- 545496250a3b5907471b2c417ff4ef58fdf6a989d5833f1e052b56bbbaccbff43.15%
- 1d7f48292c1a86a2ad34f0ae3f362b1db12d998e13309d4649c52cfa2525a3422.76%
- 91a267aec911e9f2ffc863cf9cbf95df68c310b94e0673e169e95bfb977608e32.76%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- WindowsUpdateBox.exe66.52%
- services.exe2.58%
- DellUpService.exe0.43%
Top Parents
- setuphost.exe78.57%
- wuauclt.exe9.65%
- Dism.exe6.37%
- DellUpService.exe1.16%
- wuaucltcore.exe0.97%
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.