kpatch.exe
by Various
Endpoint Management
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
K Patch - patching utility for KACE or Kaspersky.
kpatch.exe is the 1013th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,995 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Quest\KACE and it is most often launched by KPlugins.exe.
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1013th
most commonly executed Windows program
1,995
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Quest\KACE80.55%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\KACE19.45%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1518ec8c779ec5945c688e81ae60a2e2352a328c74c797b0ebaf4339157f4d0280.55%
- c326f14c02cf717cd80e0f3b67bf910d26abc325a5b71cebffe132183910cc8418.25%
- c77c85d84d1fb2ff12fc93b583773d6690324aba576e1151c0566011ef64f2b41.2%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- powershell.exe100%
Top Parents
- KPlugins.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.exe33.59%
- cabarc.exe32.64%
- cmd.exe32.57%
- LM.Detection_x64.exe0.91%
- cscript.exe0.17%
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