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

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