Adobe Desktop Service.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Adobe Desktop Service - core Creative Cloud desktop application service.
Adobe Desktop Service.exe is the 1033rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,895 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Desktop Common\ADS and it is most often launched by Creative Cloud.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Desktop Common\ADS100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 0f2fc378dab9d31c281dbe0cf6bafc0c9d1fb93199cd80914c188b6f624da56a18.37%
- 1ecdab040ff1f2dadebdd39f3d7a40af5d2d84b7e5068a5502a633d0cd57723117.53%
- 4c223830250f2e3ef0d140538889f3720f5cdf0cf7ebb6d044ee8bdd16079a8e11.37%
- 3e44d485266001a83502ed8a8d29dd337e36fe704a795f3d6e26cba8e59373cc7.84%
- a43bfe7a6b5a025d7d8e5b474443a94bc84220797bc66cf39074cfd7e45187195.77%
- 6dd223a6acf35708d2b280e0c0c89cdce717d355bd1fd6fd145ffce454f5e4de4.26%
- f1de824189ae754d2dca1ebb7c7c1528e4928536433c2782e4e30a4c6d8242994.14%
- 2f570e78c2418860486f7b424861d117d695815f76aee7e48247e6e1797bf0213.75%
- 238eed04b64e5200ad97e7dafcb6c8105a4067cb6eaa5299cebb13b1e943e30d3.58%
- 723ced878c818b16863c181f41e5374ba57740339cf446305f6f2b855ef7b6472.8%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- runonce.exe84.37%
- userinit.exe9.85%
- explorer.exe1.62%
Top Parents
- Creative Cloud.exe88.19%
- explorer.exe10.54%
- WerFault.exe0.42%
- InDesign.exe0.11%
Top Children
- HDHelper.exe38.23%
- CoreSync.exe12.37%
- CCXProcess.exe10.77%
- icacls.exe10.38%
- CCLibrary.exe8.12%
- Photoshop.exe0.51%
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