AdobeGCClient.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Adobe Genuine Copy Client - validates Adobe software licenses and checks for counterfeit installations.
AdobeGCClient.exe is the 247th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 53,768 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AdobeGCClient and it is most often launched by Adobe Genuine Launcher.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AdobeGCClient99.6%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat\GC0.4%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- fe8a9e751d83e3d6c6656a3f139513b74fc906a0ab717193766be4e8b7bfebf217.99%
- 106e26fb3e7bde3f04948c6a72e8eb3e92d913c00ebd5e7bcc824d90f7db786a14.93%
- 44ed519d47c6152d0a34bf90eed38ae46a91faf977431977cd9febb2c88001ab11.34%
- ffe1240286112eff28cf83042ece1a6bda02bca76942d7e87a4ba14ee42c71cc9.39%
- b57aab0a87e6c85ddf061a0a10bc10b96c61ae827fbb61f514a1df9fffcf263f6.34%
- 59c495e4cb73fad6569649bbfc3b540169ead4b6da440eacc5bb72b16def403e5.49%
- 9d5cce0ac353dbe1deecfacbf429a7171496a8e4886bcea867a483329328acd55%
- fddf649494bb0dd76b30267fd2f27ee815532461624922c4a8763200d31411d93.21%
- c95269721e2079ee48955d45dbe91aafa68cc7a6b7c4fca7db82ca8538c25eae3.11%
- 2abe024e5fa892bd5f650bc203c33021d109f17364e6a15d474e48f6c49241722.85%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- Acrobat.exe29%
- AGSService.exe21.54%
- AGMService.exe15.69%
- svchost.exe11.8%
- explorer.exe6.8%
- Photoshop.exe3.11%
- AfterFX.exe2.18%
- InDesign.exe1.97%
- Illustrator.exe1.84%
Top Parents
- adobe_licutil.exe19.03%
- Acrobat.exe0.4%
- backgroundTaskHost.exe<0.01%
- taskhostw.exe<0.01%
Top Children
- HDHelper.exe99.1%
- conhost.exe0.9%
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