HControl.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
ASUS Hotkey Control - handles function key and special key events on ASUS laptops.
HControl.exe is the 827th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 3,597 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\ATK Package\ATK Hotkey and it is most often launched by AsLdrSrv.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\ATK Package\ATK Hotkey100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- b7fade3561dcfd501d700450e0225a934cd25fd270d974b95080ba894e07dc9d45.22%
- f4cb1821ff13b3df54ca118d5c64923e43cc79b91aba784ec2cdb3536014249026.1%
- 75632c017d20ca9462f9fdb1faf4dca6b6ed7ee497a17f19eba4ddd93cf8fae38.56%
- 93192458a404d236977c47fc24d2edaa9610be9de2ee9470f991056fcb7851485.92%
- 692dbf97fccc000f0a5cf1a5fe666de48a6cfb8088e957b2d5572cad65938d174.76%
- 78d5e4dee1a2065e6c23dd45419b8d8207336ec6771306b9516c1e4acd8e03583.7%
- 699bea53b09d8898ac6883b78dbe1ce9e41bf13d5d635ba0dc384dc84d26ee732.85%
- 0540cc7ea89a565707202efe4f8d03c4deed11cc8f198a4d96793ea6a31611092.82%
- 937b13ffa32cd3bf72d7faee9f67d72ff69ea26ff1a47794cfaeb1025823a76a0.06%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- AsLdrSrv.exe100%
Top Children
- SimAppExec.exe56.12%
- AsusTPCfg64.exe42.81%
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