hwupdchk.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Hardware Update Check - checks for hardware driver/firmware updates.
hwupdchk.exe is the 1059th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,789 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\hackerwatch and it is most often launched by MCUPDA~1.EXE.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\hackerwatch100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 76373d937d118f59f20eb01cc8475394d2e130b9b757e302dfcdbce11422a03a54.3%
- 163b3ae11ae1f09d4beb85f33de58c3354d8251d5af23659f9634ee51d2397d625.78%
- e5f0874eb9adf49b6b84afb9b2e1aa68a517ff9d08062e5e942583756e7129fc17.43%
- af333abb676b4f4d9ea9935f9ee3b81c702b66022280b85098d356cebca3d4d12.38%
- 300aa82d58f70fc9bd58162c14729956aa119094fab4ee9858b05edf9bfbc44d0.06%
- 9a6e1fb80ddcfc49a90f46499d8fa23cabdf0ec0168a2aa219e3c93668f2f6390.06%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Parents
- MCUPDA~1.EXE67.34%
- mcupdatemgr.exe32.66%
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