brave.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Brave Browser - privacy-focused Chromium-based web browser with built-in ad blocking.
brave.exe is the 898th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 2,797 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application and it is most often launched by brave.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application69.96%
- C:\Users\...30.04%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- ccf8833d73bc3d97d74247c86a453d38579ba96028683ebba2f77e23b611a2ee13.14%
- 3d7488792667f27fccf78a50fbc78a75c489b5a2d494f9fa7fd2c9a43cc9fde213.04%
- 52d204e7e8ca503093c0b90272ca9f7d4b1bdd7bd3d3b24f85a298677c409f6510.61%
- f64a1ee1f27e6fac61f1395ae7711558fd9b024592fc053348cf51589dbde4af9.36%
- 5eab37ec1f1ed03da2fca76cea0ae7b494988d734d8f8ffa302e3986a1b66fbd7.59%
- e4c0cf7a97e7638dee994ab682da92b91386c6cc78e565c5dbe153b65efe6b0c6.8%
- 93d2543f210f180b78fbba8b76cde0b71e498e29db609ef9380e6948042f39cc5.24%
- 65b3ec831468a8930cdcf94705c1a98cd709156de5a79e3b4411c7f98f9644455.1%
- 2f1c8886df00e701a6770e39082d7d6b52639a7ca4c7535a1d2f4e7df00d35ce4.82%
- 37aaaa6b080d23163bc97687fc0d1fe248fa615a540ff2ede3309507c7da55394.16%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- brave.exe82.87%
- OUTLOOK.EXE3.76%
- explorer.exe2.47%
- Teams.exe1.79%
- pwsafe.exe0.79%
- ONENOTE.EXE0.14%
- Signal.exe0.14%
- atmgr.exe0.04%
Top Children
- brave.exe98.09%
- OUTLOOK.EXE0.42%
- Zoom.exe0.34%
- setup.exe0.25%
- EXCEL.EXE0.17%
- Teams.exe0.17%
- ciscowebexstart.exe0.13%
- notepad++.exe0.08%
- Wireshark.exe0.08%
- chrmstp.exe0.04%
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