control-backgrounder.exe

by Tableau/Various

Application

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

Control Backgrounder - background processing component for Tableau Server.

control-backgrounder.exe is the 1308th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,032 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from D:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\packages\backgrounder.20223.22.1108.0821.

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1308th

most commonly executed Windows program

1,032

observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

D:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\packages\backgrounder.20223.22.1108.082194.57%
D:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\packages\backgrounder.20223.23.0214.10143.59%
D:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\packages\backgrounder.20231.23.0711.11491.84%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

e89ddc57ed4c62dcec4c9fb5f7d827c74fe2583c252287293add4fe04b60949d94.57%
3a8d4792cf805a0ce1c967b661d96cdd6e8b73e43de9af0f3977109dcf8cf3353.59%
06880fc3c4d1c37fb03cb8924b6eb75b3df412466577af1468e558cb1aecdb971.84%

Process Ancestry

Top Children

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