GUP.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild and observed in the EchoTrail lab on Windows 11.
Summary
Notepad++ Generic Updater
GUP.exe is the 1602nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 573 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\updater and it is most often launched by notepad++.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\updater53.66%
- C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater44.6%
- C:\...1.57%
- C:\Users\...0.17%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- a1e65d456c2e52eddccb2e0f2d373666e63ecb19869a803441119cbb5d587ff98.58%
- 3cca2def6ec159347de0a4c01132d8c0ee6ddf7e5645f2e44c65f39d765f66b07.85%
- d6c4b9b54967e649fed73ca2ef5e9fec8d7cf74aed5f9ecde18a9bec433157c46.2%
- 5fda1d49ad9e08035b3893796191aff7e1dab06079e2e50ff1dc13911c33aee55.47%
- 53880b76424dc472b1b3ba7e04278c44a2d03be988118ccfd8c2f9bc0220ad644.74%
- 06b560efbf733bdbcf8e2d9bc81120bbdedf7a95cf493ff5cb88363abd6510b04.56%
- 5ecd5b7b57536aaae45e5eacaf21b7727acf94afc376630b064f52b9af1e8e684.56%
- b03f255d7bacfe549ab2f9a880063a0defa369736d1dcd31d6026a33bc0899784.38%
- 4de511d4d600f7598d7a2307a19b88df54e7c075ceae5ab7e8d6ab31c21154204.01%
- 268a65829e86d5c3d324eea79b51e59f0a7d07c69d3ba0f700c9cb3aa772566f3.65%
- 50155027edb4c0e4abcd4c8265b6cb0f55c09b2ceb80b917264b218cc06b1390
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe92.97%
- cmd.exe4.32%
- OpenWith.exe1.62%
- firefox.exe0.54%
- chrome.exe0.27%
- OUTLOOK.EXE0.27%
Top Parents
- notepad++.exe100%
Top Children
- explorer.exe1.47%
Lab record
- Installed from
- winget Notepad++.Notepad++ 8.9.8
- Publisher
- NOTEPAD++
- Persistence
- none
- Network
- 3 destinations
- Command lines
- 2 patterns (3 launches)
- DLL loads
- 59 patterns (118 loads)
- Registry writes
- 115 patterns (142 writes)
- File writes
- 2 patterns (2 writes)
- HTTP requests
- 0 patterns (0 requests)
- TLS connections
- 0 patterns (0 handshakes)
- Named pipes
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Process access
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Driver loads
- 0 patterns (0 loads)
- PowerShell blocks
- 0 patterns (0 blocks)
- Remote threads
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Audit events
- 0 patterns (0 events)
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