launcher.exe
by Various
Application Support
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Launcher - generic application launcher process.
launcher.exe is the 1192nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,363 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Monitoring Agent\systray and it is most often launched by runonce.exe.
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1192nd
most commonly executed Windows program
1,363
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Monitoring Agent\systray95.84%
- C:\Users\...3.73%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\USBChargerPlus0.37%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Common0.07%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- e4bb71956f573979e96b18b5df18aec84eb96e890a76cf26a6e2b687ad27808740.93%
- 61e8e5ee66c28de238aded412054c941e597539e73b1c296e12bc17f4618b09515.23%
- 59f411331f850bd9a4bee2791899d31fb3c9d9df3fcf870a912e5e98ae5d736f9.07%
- d7040f4c170d9d3af33c86a29fa98f86ecd927f92f3f1029c4da7d80d484c73b8.49%
- 322fbbcd54a34d3232ce57638c85a6d8cb1ba6e1331f72cac05ccc4df26b77967.37%
- 14beead4285a5abf441bd6d6dbd8519674f2e5520302b1bc5e7fabcb228b53086.5%
- b65c45ede70beda16317d819275ad7e3e0cf43fef4ab3c3bbf568caa1a3a03ae4.61%
- da66cad60340bb7059434364d78a12583071cca9d88165b2fa6785b7d3f498872.72%
- 7388bd01c5829ef461bec507e9575bd4f80d2bde5b433ece3507b9b2e7203e310.92%
- 275f412c75c82a4451fda9475ab486b48418e1a1c688123134244fbece2a05f90.78%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe40.68%
- explorer.exe36.54%
- launcher.exe12.91%
- userinit.exe3.78%
- opera.exe0.85%
- WerFault.exe0.85%
- OUTLOOK.EXE0.73%
- svchost.exe0.73%
- winlogon.exe0.49%
Top Parents
- runonce.exe56.3%
- svchost.exe17.52%
- OUTLOOK.EXE12.9%
- opera.exe5.64%
- lync.exe2.48%
- explorer.exe2.38%
- msiexec.exe0.88%
- opera_autoupdate.exe0.39%
- AcroRd32.exe0.24%
- ONENOTE.EXE0.15%
Top Children
- opera.exe32%
- installer.exe30.87%
- opera_autoupdate.exe28.71%
- explorer.exe3.53%
- SysTray.exe1.68%
- unpack200.exe1.44%
- conhost.exe0.16%
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