link.exe
by Microsoft
Development Tool
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Microsoft Linker - links compiled object files into executables and DLLs.
link.exe is the 1254th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,150 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64 and it is most often launched by go.exe.
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1254th
most commonly executed Windows program
1,150
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Go\pkg\tool\windows_amd6496.43%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\bin\Hostx86\x861.22%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\x86_amd640.87%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd640.78%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin0.52%
- D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\bin\HostX86\x860.17%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9d3742307a42a1c3b8f60c08971a0fbd60683a425e3e054a1523d3bec44143e035.53%
- 65fe07fdde2bbfa7f928b1d993eac866c608bd951cdfd8e64e18894c909e28cd28.45%
- f0b4efcdf31723608976c40d63f7283c2d1d80ccefa5edcc08c38a2d94bf9ac916.47%
- 4a49a78daf0917cc4f9f7a888c51a4b4f4f97c656bba2fab19883e1454241a6d10.96%
- c1e9ca17574a4df98fc73e718cfdeb19696f16366fc1c28adba23deb4d7cfedd7.34%
- 3378e5852bebe3817a49cbf1bb722d3bf846b45bc4fe63863da9f7a69b1f80bb0.74%
- 473acf26cfb73d8e82e206afedd948203d9cbf75d292d1018cc155c8f4a2d6cc0.51%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- MSBuild.exe64%
- explorer.exe36%
Top Children
- cvtres.exe46.15%
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