wmplayer.exe
Summary
Windows Media Player for playing audio and video files.
wmplayer.exe is the 110th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 201,897 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player100%
- C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player<0.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 31d619b5575e678ce7208c1f72746cb58300820b1a217e32c703e70eead25b8287.09%
- 665d08e13d70035caad74237df2e7b8e5681083912a509dbc673d479cd3757b912.25%
- c7adbfeeb7993928cb542751625dac6b10e96b18fcdcd836a72cad62ae7972500.42%
- 90d10cc4636741f5b8a9daddb43b22561cf4ca647d2ac7197621c124bf0eb53f0.06%
- af2f20f00acdd6e18ef47e2a8f828558d9ae962cdb6f7fd2301876e4e0afd71e0.06%
- 39fee85c8c273dcf1cc4325fa0c24b8148ac6ba0f4be7e3c9596240bf1a41fac0.03%
- ee2cd68f5734cbd9ec00bada4724d53c8751efedf934edee28e6cb181fd7599c0.02%
- 7be6d4cec8d46a5899dde78a63aa9d25ca7fe308f19600c6c9400fc221b0109c0.02%
- 14e1652ee0bda8d425b9bd467fcfb7c0c4ae2f5c4d1d655ae8252ea9cfd969e60.01%
- e38036765fdda1e24bc2dbbd83e3fe7726cd3bda85fca555cae25520a200918c0.01%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe99.42%
- services.exe0.52%
- userinit.exe0.03%
- wmplayer.exe0.02%
- svchost.exe0.01%
- cmd.exe<0.01%
- iexplore.exe<0.01%
- WerFault.exe<0.01%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe0.65%
- explorer.exe0.04%
- setup_wm.exe0.02%
- Dropbox.exe0.01%
- OpenWith.exe0.01%
- chrome.exe<0.01%
- OUTLOOK.EXE<0.01%
- Acrobat.exe<0.01%
- RtkNGUI64.exe<0.01%
- iexplore.exe<0.01%
Top Children
- setup_wm.exe77.97%
- unregmp2.exe18.22%
- WerFault.exe0.85%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
Security Analysis
What does wmplayer.exe normally do?
Part of Microsoft software. Normal operation.
When is wmplayer.exe suspicious?
Running from unexpected paths.
How do attackers abuse wmplayer.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.