epprotectedservice.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
ESET Protected Service - tamper-protected service component for ESET endpoint security.
epprotectedservice.exe is the 1305th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,036 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus Engine\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus Engine\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus91.35%
- C:\Program Files\Bitdefender\Endpoint Security8.65%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- cc5b2dd44e940faa9e429d856bd931767f8f98ae4af576381c66ef46fb1b60aa13.41%
- f962006ffa8c705c2fe725062c92a7dbc697e5ef037e95aef28b05d176a204e412.76%
- ed52c97850a6f9b5eca66a693aae0468fdeac3cf9b9f04f37cf500eb4d55c99311.78%
- 7680bd0ee2da38312298b9563dc79ea2299a5e88210aef1365bfc405294ae2f311.14%
- 1957f79016e5e07f946570a9bb7dad1e3f65cd2752413d04e9f903b43ce08f447.35%
- da03a59cf6b0ef493a6f3340e7a27f290df3f33abe554fbe1798a7bcac1c810d7.14%
- d6cf4985560e4a3ea333458461c36a116d5110c559da31c87435fb4a9f0976e04.76%
- 16409cf4b3da0139fdf53032bddb2f1e041d2e506d763cca43269371a1bc761d4.54%
- 4cdf2cf2f7f6ae6c1ee97d0fe956bf86277efaa7bb0bc671e06a27d05582a78a4.11%
- e244ec34aef6d7c67f6778a9c97429388936088a187e6679d56283527649a1543.14%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe93.1%
Top Parents
- services.exe79.04%
- installer.exe18.08%
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