alg.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows' Application Layer Gateway service.
alg.exe is the 3679th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 47 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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3679th
most commonly executed Windows program
47
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- dd0f60e96fac68fbd5b86382e541408c613bd0f871d0e0a1ef9ab6e7b26e545c39.13%
- 6425fa16f0cbf5f3008780095364830ebf1f073bd5109764fe9e88245afb936732.61%
- 0eefd2619d77d7bafed95197e0c0ef30147acaddcd81eb2761ee9893fd55f91b15.22%
- 896d685ef63b0041558a51096506fd915a99b3fe2d524e6834c1f996383134db4.35%
- a1c648efe12a5a3356bc0949372add0ff0ca2f5a8f992eb71c87e9c0d5c92bb24.35%
- 6abe94df833ec0e6d145429bba99fdca9ad3fcbb685a432b20c04f74de9a42a52.17%
- ea7486b4425a87fddd60542aaf0812a8db868f569886b894883702b362a05d2c2.17%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
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