capture_helper.exe
by Various
Application Support
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Capture Helper - screen or data capture helper process.
capture_helper.exe is the 678th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 5,906 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Users\... and it is most often launched by Discord.exe.
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678th
most commonly executed Windows program
5,906
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Users\...100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- a8a9d53a5720e0c9b710d85f364e6832fb4ee420818ae7f49fc54ead511fc07471%
- 02eb9f798c4b757650cfae68c18e6a46ebd454b1937c02a7db0d02eb6886e1d524.79%
- 92d7e2b3ef2b717cf67a79397af62b29c1f5ee94a7b4e935735ee4dc9d2f16e91.41%
- a59d384bfe681ae480da6a41d99600af6b1898e8f25a104bbe931bf6f1eb54081%
- e1503e0aacf37529fadde9c78331c1280894ca49e0e6627f5d550acd6221f57d0.76%
- f0f5b66707c99b2f8d9aa31e586d6c0174fee8ffc5198d655756c9967d9705810.66%
- c4f91e8d52181015faccab70c3695cf490708db70002a121302955e9e78966140.27%
- 8e148221cabb9f51f010b9ad8b2e9448ac731532f6dcfe3fe182fed875aeb84a0.12%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- Discord.exe100%
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