wlanext.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Windows WLAN AutoConfig Extension - hosts third-party wireless network profile extensions.
wlanext.exe is the 681st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 5,849 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
681st
most commonly executed Windows program
5,849
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 20a3b4e153a67dd5f1466ae0c01941999dcaf459ff59053177a1b14d400ba66d32.19%
- b476038e8a77c0ff9e1d03b85dfa900c04462c0983187b4a9da011da5e89417018.58%
- c64155944da774a80d443a0e6dcc40a3405d9c69ca3ebc95ca46bfd65c7a490810.69%
- ef2cd03fb45cb7c5815edfe6d2c7853057ce363305e644577bfe25dcb0cf35af7.53%
- ceaeca52d443775f45902afc3920c129cbda812de932d2c8b01ecf482a91fc705.93%
- d70707b830b7a0a4683ca2169328131a385da0f859b96704653d59c6afae04ad5.26%
- 77fba142961d6076f4aa6b0fcd83cfa272e57bc2527818b20ee0b63fb14b3bc45.25%
- 90ba99f33f2e6e16479787fa752aac77efa5eab80187f3aa1e464223eb18f3924.39%
- 8456099deb994f309fde890e4f0e571a0a67f9b7dd079516905175cd1500fa524.1%
- 7b22218e02e292ce656232f5d9c315865a194e7d0e5c908e12b48f7f8c6f29b33.24%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe99.91%
Top Children
- conhost.exe83.28%
- iWrap.exe16.5%
- WerFault.exe0.2%
- pcaui.exe0.02%
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.