Clean.exe
by Various
Application Support
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Clean utility - cleanup process for various software packages.
Clean.exe is the 852nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 3,329 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Clean and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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852nd
most commonly executed Windows program
3,329
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Clean96.46%
- C:\ProgramData\...3.54%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1e7003d7f1af340ccdcbc231adb8c7fd8d64fb808405389523d4fb34e16fffdc61.35%
- 511180bfecfeba0911eb74e4efaccacfcd71edef07f7d85be89485afd8febf5131.68%
- 28e714fb1ba579f7c9103c5564dc9a1a4a4335ec20f803e22b32264b4dd5a6456.97%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe93.98%
- ALsvc.exe5.51%
- setup.exe0.45%
Top Parents
- services.exe94.26%
- SophosUpdate.exe5.26%
- Uninstall.exe0.06%
Top Children
- Safestore64.exe37.24%
- conhost.exe1.53%
- regsvr32.exe1.02%
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