wowreg32.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
WOW64 COM registration utility
wowreg32.exe is the 2631st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 147 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SysWOW64 and it is most often launched by drvinst.exe.
2631st
most commonly executed Windows program
147
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 2a738ed57a28af741779a65b580c3909119ef666a597a240ce864e7176b45fc640%
- b75000da980b029a91a8334949d80a3958c6786eca0e19e85ae06ccc301b612815.86%
- 66c9cf1f7b0320ab4767b7dd17ae877413b43d4b0a08488ab3e74b75a4eeda5613.1%
- a18a76290cd968d6a1734ca77b6553274359e24cc67e75b364b19732f94704257.59%
- 2eff52772b1eddc04bccc01957a39ace8cc5106b0de68a4549cf447a9270ce3c6.9%
- eb9048606c0ce6be9f82f0b6b62a977133a6c43459e3dc6417f941d591fab2a86.9%
- 3e9d835472aeb677443237811f229e2c6bb98330ccd4d2b0b3d93db83a64ce1c3.45%
- 26e34d8f1370e557f2d864aa552aa3d77c4bb6371c49778007a2dc91f206ffa72.76%
- 005293cff6e4c0cd03377f60ae4d7d1e12cc863dc62d033622d1612494d9f3252.07%
- 5790ecbb47ee1391502c81159a9dcf24b569ea2e3f4dd47e4267f81eacb70a4c1.38%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe79.21%
- setup.exe10.89%
- drvinst.exe7.92%
Top Parents
- drvinst.exe82.43%
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.