EpicGamesLauncher.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Epic Games Launcher - game store and launcher for Epic Games titles.
EpicGamesLauncher.exe is the 883rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 2,969 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\Launcher\Portal\Binaries\Win64 and it is most often launched by FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\Launcher\Portal\Binaries\Win6497.11%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\Launcher\Portal\Binaries\Win322.89%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 31a8750bcea6406abaeaaec7c1cf8db56a5805bc8c568f522acd528ebeede0f43.82%
- 3ebc25e50e0c7e09f463bbe59f08eaa18922f705d91739b356fe1b6a7356dd673.75%
- d0a5ed224e9a5ae0393ad3b450bc151b0ed0e3d840733ef08cc828a36120f4d33.52%
- 55036483ceb7ee417d708906c8e586e4655a92579f244d3abfca106a480e967d3%
- a67bda93c92d5d184f48d2bd8b290fdcd1577e01afa2e2277488eb91ba84d6dc2.92%
- 39e9e0ec2381740c2047da485e5091202c71aa6d820deb6d5c8b4293001e79692.77%
- bc67479063333b0a141b379604fba8bc2174c20ac3985e03042e97c6c8f5f51f2.62%
- 155401b0266cf60a4a0559d1ad5c62b011ad2fb71390286bb41a14694f3af1cc2.44%
- 580070efca0d1dee649e0db2028075d214e87ad9dd835e62af7d2dffb61f790d2.21%
- 42f5fe5b7fec15f5feed77ce90af5021aebeaccc2a9193065e53bc333acbaf411.87%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe26.64%
- explorer.exe20.07%
- msiexec.exe1.64%
- services.exe1.64%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe30.43%
- EpicGamesLauncher.exe28.74%
- msiexec.exe0.2%
- rundll32.exe0.1%
- Launchy.exe0.07%
- chrome.exe0.03%
- RSServCmd.exe0.03%
- SearchFilterHost.exe0.03%
Top Children
- UnrealCEFSubProcess.exe34.81%
- EpicWebHelper.exe24.41%
- EpicGamesLauncher.exe23.06%
- taskkill.exe8.32%
- FortniteLauncher.exe3.71%
- dxdiag.exe1.99%
- chrome.exe0.72%
- WerFault.exe0.36%
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