wordpad.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
WordPad text editor
wordpad.exe is the 1532nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 655 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\windows nt\accessories and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
1532nd
most commonly executed Windows program
655
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\windows nt\accessories96.65%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\windows nt\accessories3.35%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- aa2176d1a5669fe2bd2d330552e547f9e4a8123ec58d64e14ac66c09d7903f7924.08%
- c0e1eb8b49d84a91144ff2110f87f53a8cd0e1d7e7a9a25d4a0861de2f0af36f15.23%
- b3029df662f00e7bf49eb600bfb3da7e380c9e7877cc8ad05972139979f7cc3b10.81%
- 8069a97d6011a7ad083dfd22b5704304a1652fea0109351d1464392cd62f82099.58%
- ac345cb597e9e4f096758aadb2348723a94097ede015a08643e3c76665e8d6274.91%
- ed2ddeff69f79c652f675952208c9fbffcc00773ab00421979958c5b0e4fe73f4.67%
- 719c4af711f19ae8912b47daba94b645aa83aac567e7662bdf5f0f54f0431c1b2.46%
- 44a6d65442c80b5db26742ff1f2a2a2363177f232917b714947b5cc520a4b5a72.21%
- 59b86c305d6ab3867b4f7099438dbfd2ef9f9662323628e2473af153e503f8f02.21%
- 6405bc807e3afe9ad9978a2d95a3f89ac4dd6c6f349166656bb23ebf8e4e707c2.21%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe83.8%
- explorer.exe6.7%
- svchost.exe5.18%
- OneDrive.exe1.94%
- 7zFM.exe0.65%
- winlogon.exe0.22%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe76.86%
- msedge.exe8.07%
- chrome.exe5.78%
- OpenWith.exe3.81%
- OUTLOOK.EXE1.52%
- MSOXMLED.EXE1.22%
- firefox.exe0.3%
- rundll32.exe0.15%
- RuntimeBroker.exe0.15%
Top Children
- splwow64.exe92.31%
- chrome.exe7.69%
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.