McInst.exe
by McAfee / Trellix
Endpoint Security
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
McAfee installer process
McInst.exe is the 2502nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 167 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\McAfee\Installer\11.7.125.0 and it is most often launched by MCUPDA~1.EXE.
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2502nd
most commonly executed Windows program
167
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\McAfee\Installer\11.7.125.024.74%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\McAfee\Installer\15.2.116.018.21%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\McAfee\Installer\10.0.3017.016.84%
- C:\...12.37%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\McAfee\Installer\12.0.114.07.56%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\McAfee\Installer\11.5.165.06.87%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\McAfee\Installer\12.8.120.03.78%
- C:\ProgramData\...3.09%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\McAfee\Installer3.09%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\McAfee\Installer\12.7.148.01.72%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9c1241a155eb1281eab3bd267a640eb3d77b808a8389ea9318e8f78d18747a9626.35%
- a83bbdeacb90146c61c41d61c93f339ecf7bbfff53ef602b0439e1913e6579ab21.3%
- f630d0ca2454b5c01d6a205d05974c8e65140ebf57d6838b984d23ef21efd81119.13%
- b3d10f65989c4936936c39a2e9a150bb68df25b9da141f4fbee50f1c077f508d17.69%
- edd6fd0798a37dd9e4228873bfd7bce23d895639560b9926e52a8d36565ff5ac8.66%
- 8f4cb190491489b55447c8e05834f9c96b291f9d4e7e3875f982f610f5814bd92.89%
- 568d971055f65ac72d4690480b9947243032eb5a4c600267b81db58a1529dc2e1.44%
- 245ca5ad8e860923557f1285a8387c0f1ccd279029be4b883b8cbbe5febde9ae1.08%
- f57b428f67487b0ffdfa99f4e86008400d8885fec1a96fbb74c078175ef8f30d0.72%
- 5e677fd989a2e022893ac94e911d68c35d17e97695ce32a4a0df82b877d076e00.36%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- rundll32.exe60%
- dllhost.exe20%
- MCUPDA~1.EXE7.5%
Top Parents
- MCUPDA~1.EXE36.53%
- rundll32.exe28.74%
- McInst.exe3.59%
- mcupdatemgr.exe3.59%
- services.exe2.99%
- McPltCmd.exe2.4%
- dadupdater.exe1.8%
- mcupdutl.exe0.6%
Top Children
- regsvr32.exe57.14%
- rundll32.exe3.64%
- sc.exe2.86%
- schtasks.exe2.08%
- McPltCmd.exe1.56%
- mcupdate.exe1.56%
- net.exe1.56%
- mcapexe.exe1.04%
- mcvsmap.exe0.78%
- dadupdater.exe0.52%
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