instw64.exe

by Various

System Utility

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

InstallWatch 64-bit installer wrapper for tracking file system changes during software installation

instw64.exe is the 1996th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 311 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SysWOW64 and it is most often launched by rpcnet.exe.

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1996th

most commonly executed Windows program

311

observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

C:\Windows\SysWOW64100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

72186021168d0354eb1324cdb1b055ed704768482baed7235ddc5d889d00113e100%

Process Ancestry

Top Parents

rpcnet.exe56.59%
svchost.exe43.41%

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