hot.exe

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

GNU Image Manipulation Program Plug-In

hot.exe is the 7112th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 6 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins and it is most often launched by gimp-2.8.exe.

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7112th
most commonly executed Windows program
6
observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins66.67%
  • C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\hot16.67%
  • C:\Users\...16.67%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 1c2fba06cc7e47dceb2a2670f6fcfbec90a24d053b9bb3715698202afdb03b9733.33%
  • c9ca86d39a2b0429f8cbc69d768dc03fd6eba354afd61fe27a4ef53a2d1f662b33.33%
  • 3e0d19b07393e34c2ee5f0cd3d72a04396a295ec7c065759b815bf200be2ec4116.67%
  • 539939f29c36aea15ec47b876e5a87a9d5267098eb04b577ec21ba692f00b0a516.67%

Process Ancestry

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