ALsvc.exe
by Various
Application Support
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Application Licensing Service - manages application licenses.
ALsvc.exe is the 729th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 4,746 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\AutoUpdate and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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729th
most commonly executed Windows program
4,746
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\AutoUpdate100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- b9ba2d3920562c3e38c4cd3f4bfd98a17d8c32b9f288b72dfa1a8f5f603aa71b41.98%
- 33e3970172d642efa3b6541f3a8950d420d75ff4b59370eac8024c5bc0d5e29124.2%
- 9b52e005195b887d2994f82dafaecfa36f310fa1d5316461293cace60bc3fe9c17.72%
- 028d101ce74094392eab7a7c6e88118341be230230f5e5606044be7dc27d731310.84%
- 4e13892daf664036701613bf43744eaf60ebc2fcc7c82fa619df8a2f8d1eca434.21%
- 1da1a21e70cb0bb60ba6f6f14df3ea8c6f7fa631a95a4acafb275b40fa5e6c190.73%
- a00f64646895662788e97e6650b0d94ed8c76bbb7527d59feb4894a7f456218f0.21%
- 1b9dc9524b0b0c6df671a3325b9b526d9771017de6b2a938d1863a9da7c1b9410.06%
- 3497c72d38cd9d21d0f19473380da85be54ffd66803b0479604817327cd0ac410.04%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- SophosUpdate.exe99.99%
- conhost.exe<0.01%
- regsvr32.exe<0.01%
- GatherTelem.exe<0.01%
- net1.exe<0.01%
- igfxEM.exe<0.01%
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