CCleaner.exe
by Gen Digital Inc.
Sources: observed in the EchoTrail lab on Windows 11.
Summary
CCleaner (CCleaner, Gen Digital Inc.)
CCleaner.exe is not in the 2025 snapshot. It was observed in EchoTrail's behavior lab on Windows 11 24H2 on 2026-09-15 installed from winget package Piriform.CCleaner.
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5843rd
most commonly executed Windows program
n/a
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\CCleaner98.65%
- C:\Users\...1.35%
- C:\Program Files\Piriform\CCleaner 7
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 02ef20c0831b0fcad13603cfa476f63688b347bb369ab0033d0755190d2b475d40.27%
- d86d7a7b5e808ce05d07be9dc06fc4bfaac208f785fb126be49706d2aed39ee320.13%
- f9ed09ba3022157c0534b30a87cf7d65244604a4fd5cc198ef25cf8b70574a6e12.08%
- e0c16136c81498b8b0cc05075b5de3fa007dec878839db7fc7f8d492d7ade5a59.4%
- 8e2c704f29a9cdbc79e0d5795dfa07fab18ed94c13be71033d44b4b9af52c8202.01%
- 977bd282adcd1b3d9f9dfcff0e90ade92bed969c2099e25eebbad5193efcd3442.01%
- 2b047cc6c999aa7ce2bf163f732651e4eba9e4aa40d32044edaaf2a351d6abe91.34%
- 2ce0de28ab0c3b8b5bf13f1fcb3a4e540c5f4b1a059817c7b0a1b264fc22519c1.34%
- 6906bdd03692af0a96b9a3c87ffb41523e729fd405a70100ac0661b2805ab79e1.34%
- 983c20dfc4b522392acd454abd9c29c579f65783d71443fec231fce3901eee4e1.34%
- efa3c572e4f100ef1bfe569391b1996259af5d95855246e335889730b1445f00
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe76.4%
- userinit.exe21.35%
- CCleaner64.exe1.12%
- winlogon.exe1.12%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe79.87%
- explorer.exe13.42%
- cmd.exe1.34%
Top Children
- CCleaner64.exe94.05%
- cmd.exe4.76%
- whoami.exe1.19%
Lab record
- Installed from
- winget Piriform.CCleaner 7.11.1509.1940
- Publisher
- Gen Digital Inc.
- Persistence
- 3 scheduled tasks
- Network
- none
- Command lines
- 2 patterns (4 launches)
- DLL loads
- 77 patterns (247 loads)
- Registry writes
- 29 patterns (73 writes)
- File writes
- 9 patterns (9 writes)
- HTTP requests
- 0 patterns (0 requests)
- TLS connections
- 0 patterns (0 handshakes)
- Named pipes
- 2 patterns (7 events)
- Process access
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Driver loads
- 0 patterns (0 loads)
- PowerShell blocks
- 0 patterns (0 blocks)
- Remote threads
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Audit events
- 0 patterns (0 events)
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