grep.exe
by GNU
Development Tool
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
GNU Grep text search utility
grep.exe is the 1502nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 718 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by bash.exe.
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1502nd
most commonly executed Windows program
718
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...56.82%
- C:\Users\...43.18%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- a1e5531cdc240eb71083b84ea6cdfeda5fd6bc25f2a586d52e9ef93e590d3cb656.82%
- 7c2cc66c6c5d3c98c615a30d0ea9f5dda2119b8d32ecf04312bbd9c51c222b0143.18%
Process Ancestry
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