googledrivesync.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Google Drive Sync (legacy) - desktop sync client for Google Drive, replaced by Google Drive File Stream.
googledrivesync.exe is the 739th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 4,666 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Google\Drive and it is most often launched by googledrivesync.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Google\Drive70.1%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Drive25.8%
- C:\Users\...4.1%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 7281d9b746044db359262994d950994261ae7f4651553b64d24b30bef3b46b7012.8%
- 2c05b9c1593f814b58a5a47cf8d211769a939c1b43ba588ee3245db3c6e3aa8c9.46%
- f7b300edd1eb63cce9f2a96bb38adcbc7a5bce055e9e39bba3cc3341c8c38c036.57%
- 7f78886db1c2989965d289ce2a351ee6aa8b5ebf1c47d36f9439304b5da691fe6.37%
- 439589014c5e09db48e252c58431d9dd7a04a537b9085c1244ae83444da5fc236.15%
- 0610f5329fc4912133e7d493590d5e0a68d09282ae3e8d6eb645f9a0525d04b65.03%
- 4f4c5c83e0b48a3883eb72d8d2410e78d5a8715d417d3e615118b114c08c57574.46%
- 38d9199e134b5bb9bb4e9edb12c3811c930b7eb522c7821f86f705c5f565aca44.08%
- 9a9a002703a4a422eaa3597730af2023c2ee3b89b5ccfb2ea12c9efb97ec5ce23.56%
- f39aeef823c3e16bff65c0b81d2dc69ecc35ecada2b7dd242f12ee208408816d3.34%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe37.51%
- userinit.exe36.41%
- googledrivesync.exe10.22%
- msiexec.exe7.62%
- services.exe7.62%
- WerFault.exe0.21%
- GoogleUpdate.exe0.05%
- OfficeC2RClient.exe0.05%
- OpenWith.exe0.05%
Top Parents
- googledrivesync.exe55.95%
- explorer.exe33.67%
- msiexec.exe10.14%
- OpenWith.exe0.04%
- RuntimeBroker.exe0.04%
- chrome.exe0.02%
- GoogleUpdate.exe0.02%
- sihost.exe0.02%
Top Children
- googledrivesync.exe91.96%
- chrome.exe5.09%
- WerFault.exe0.28%
- explorer.exe0.11%
- AcroRd32.exe0.04%
- GoogleUpdate.exe0.04%
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