gzip.exe
by GNU
Application
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
GNU Gzip compression/decompression
gzip.exe is the 1717th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 477 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by sh.exe.
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1717th
most commonly executed Windows program
477
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 0bf19ac24f15a5f11bc9a99336a736c11f63261ae1809e7663c37cc3fa144880100%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- bash.exe0.26%
Top Parents
- sh.exe44.65%
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