cat.exe
by GNU
Development Tool
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
GNU cat file concatenation utility
cat.exe is the 1893rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 358 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by bash.exe.
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1893rd
most commonly executed Windows program
358
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...99.72%
- C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin0.28%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1dd069ef0dc312e8f4ca7e4d20c785612d23a138d93a1553d564c0eaba45b2b599.72%
- 596b86addbfec9f672c11622f1e78acd089663cd956a90bdabeeeff0c34767930.28%
Process Ancestry
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