agent.exe
by Various
Endpoint Management
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Generic Agent - management or monitoring agent process.
agent.exe is the 784th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 4,082 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\ProgramData\... and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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784th
most commonly executed Windows program
4,082
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\ProgramData\...99.57%
- C:\Program Files\Jazz Networks\Agent0.15%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\ZohoMeeting0.13%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Acronis\Agent0.06%
- C:\Windows\Temp\...0.04%
- C:\...0.01%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Msp Agent\components\ns-agent-management\1.3.00.01%
- C:\Users\...0.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 3a1ac6e2c33558d2522bfe802d70521a2b36e09aca6c217a1c9a22b2e50b97dd96.77%
- 0f40a8401e579ca574a88ab8ea68ec2b9129096e6980e2c72df7d00033371b800.98%
- b8cfafac512cd32e03c161436a4b3b412779ff6f2b3bf706277b15231af815900.34%
- c81031d187ef99836f4c2c02d4783e0862e2bcc95c00d9c0708f3b4a247b013e0.29%
- 1e73f848ad33dadbe651fd97651a1d99b80c3d7858a5ad75bdf1255077fcb34f0.24%
- 29ac1d5c01922c666886b0a3df42f3db80e7abace4692ffa3e7c7bc74373af820.22%
- 79dbf00f9310f5f73ffd48c8b8e18b91621ae18736cf35dbf6e268b7698ef1160.22%
- 4b6c1ad47c5a26f748a3d2b9ced492c17bf6b394504afec16f2d01c4bc59b7e70.15%
- aff611b44113fe2d0990b12fd22b71335ea7dc9d231a4bebb336fb8dd06b1b980.15%
- 11fb04f164badc072d6746d330d6bad18eff26c8ab7ff97cbab145e2886853800.12%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe99.96%
- wininit.exe0.04%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe99.3%
- agent.exe0.33%
- services.exe0.06%
- rundll32.exe0.03%
- cmd.exe0.01%
- explorer.exe0.01%
- msiexec.exe0.01%
Top Children
- adb.exe26.32%
- agent.exe15.13%
- conhost.exe9.21%
- chrome.exe2.63%
- WerFault.exe1.97%
- msedge.exe0.66%
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