How to remove taskhost.exe

taskhost.exe

The module taskhost.exe has been detected as Trojan.Wacatac

taskhost.exe
Remove taskhost.exe

File Details

Product Name:

Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company Name:

Microsoft Corporation
MD5: 725b262baa26f7ca7169728fb8fcf8b4
Size: 19 MB
First Published: 2024-09-15 23:01:33 (a year ago)
Latest Published: 2025-08-26 23:01:45 (3 months ago)
Status: Trojan.Wacatac (on last analysis)
Analysis Date: 2025-08-26 23:01:45 (3 months ago)

Common Places:

%commonappdata%
%commonappdata%
%commonappdata%
%commonappdata%
%commonappdata%
%commonappdata%
%commonappdata%
%commonappdata%
%commonappdata%
%commonappdata%

Geography:

58.8%
23.5%
17.6%

OS Version:

Windows 10 100.0%

Analysis

Subsystem: Windows GUI
PE Type: pe
OS Bitness: 64
Image Base: 0x0000000140000000
Entry Address: 0x016ac5a8

PE Sections:

Name Size of data MD5
391680 d08f1600a121b779aeeafb27e82f0fc8
60928 f6b327f34cd03158680a97473ac40dcc
1024 c19844a3cac06661abc7a3febe09aa45
16896 23cc594061cde7abc998f531345e328d
15299584 c4c2f2458f8c4ac52884b86a18da7c5f
2048 b21034c83b5cbc4344ce232338406ed9
.idata 1536 734e2a30f379a5a6c53994fdc00c1aa8
.tls 512 565773e8a8ff26151dc2ee8a5e8762c5
.rsrc 49664 04ef274d3cdba6f3f6dd68b9265ed2f1
.themida 0 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
.boot 5007360 0a1286478cfad4e9ed15d3b567166a46
.reloc 16 19038bbcc32e803bb7f780c105df1c5c

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