Wireshark.exe
by Wireshark Foundation
Security Toolmedium risk
Summary
Wireshark network protocol analyzer and packet capture tool
Wireshark.exe is the 1838th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 389 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Wireshark and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
1838th
most commonly executed Windows program
389
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Wireshark90.75%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Wireshark8.74%
- C:\Windows\Temp\...0.51%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- d9db6ae9c7ac37b5217327da6d21d1e8547a62adcfb52dfe7b610e60819f5b0015.58%
- 18c2faeb4e40489972ed2e44567707daa217ad69d4f886ad70e04281470ff6af11.17%
- 7fb4f26ed71ace89a2e5e3abedff2b1384e0376677deb3fdc97d646a287b841e11.17%
- a240f34955bb27c57d366ba7d35d803181b02c221256d5ef6ac644687a274dd68.83%
- 85112e413fa86137406b3443a9543d57dbc5cb0181e056f95cfe2daa8b22cdd46.75%
- 872fd5ebfd99ecb3ca6fca212862127a563a65f35a474b898e9319f4eaa7bc8a5.19%
- cd370e990e806896ade53dbebeb42dd323c5e13e1b79f0f39dde4031a52ed8cf4.68%
- 3720b07e4d5f384a26cb9f8a4368595e5ef1cdd811aa4c3fc3656f8ef2ed9cb94.42%
- 2c7a9fa9f242382d62c45ef83237e75bf82d433ada557a90860dd98e9d2d64c03.9%
- 004cd995a77e002264138decc4d82eccf779a7fcbe3851c000d929dd06ef5a793.12%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe54.25%
- explorer.exe30.66%
- svchost.exe5.19%
- OUTLOOK.EXE3.77%
- chrome.exe2.83%
- cmd.exe0.94%
- winlogon.exe0.94%
- KeePass.exe0.47%
- WerFault.exe0.47%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe71.72%
- chrome.exe12.6%
- OUTLOOK.EXE5.91%
- OpenWith.exe2.31%
- WinRAR.exe1.8%
- firefox.exe1.29%
- iexplore.exe0.77%
- brave.exe0.51%
- powershell.exe0.51%
- RuntimeBroker.exe0.51%
Top Children
- dumpcap.exe99.76%
- USBPcapCMD.exe0.23%
- WerFault.exe<0.01%
- chrome.exe<0.01%
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.