avastnm.exe
by Avast / Gen Digital
Endpoint Security
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Avast native messaging host for browser extension
avastnm.exe is the 1428th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 818 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast and it is most often launched by cmd.exe.
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1428th
most commonly executed Windows program
818
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 8534d9a8a65c18fc23e5df4a732973b14c885d1556e1c74ff07a0b570637a07a33.62%
- 242deb583535f9028790f6c64b2d88b5e5f4dd005bdf2ce4ad38bb25b067b21e21.71%
- 93afa51cb9f588247aa62bf311a1e658aab13c714af49e501986e41816513de513.4%
- 49de43383e01d52065ac5a5d1eee5b04653df4b093f543ff76c3de57ca80a55f8.06%
- 09c978b7a2b9483a86f7a1d7f687ec303c5f2c025851d5db568c541e02f840fc6.7%
- 5f2171fad7cb7f7529b1c78727f7daf3b5aea6f0d0313db1fc1147073150d0e36.45%
- 2ecd9b86f9c306db937b370c55f7039023910d8b5d0e5cd5766272d533a1e4d36.2%
- 859530d8775e5dd87b4dbf11684889bba2fdc6534168e9233bbbaabef884d3e71.74%
- ba66e2e85300e83afb8ba4313c51ec15156069af15d2c1e67ba483d0d5e1d0de0.99%
- 753401393e721d303b97e53c5ec349957c1c454329435aa4b2ee0d04a3df8da40.5%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- AvastSvc.exe41.67%
- AvastBrowser.exe33.33%
- instup.exe16.67%
- SystemSettings.exe8.33%
Top Parents
- cmd.exe96.58%
- instup.exe3.42%
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