mcupdate.exe
by Various
Endpoint Management
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Management Console Update - handles updates for IT management console components.
mcupdate.exe is the 412th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 17,526 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\mcafee.com\agent and it is most often launched by McUICnt.exe.
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412th
most commonly executed Windows program
17,526
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\mcafee.com\agent55.35%
- C:\...44.65%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- dcf0903dd773b2b60ff00fbaeff1fad9fc257b4fabf2d963fa5f53264a92a8a270.72%
- cc68663f9f6648a818662f6b74e64aa780a841aa48a62cea1f86e3f499e1956118.64%
- 96277fe86030c16b42126a5e2c0032007822dee50b0f8bfa7fda9475a366a2828.32%
- c47f72c9942ed8d1b4b555517355b92dc5f4f51262bd1a98874124bd1e8ca3a81.63%
- f822e3a9c82af6ec9cef751a439e9afbddfdb88632078458926c2586265574860.65%
- 801d3f8cfe5ecec8c993ca3a6e65a97675fea01269619198a970719c23df149a0.05%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- McUICnt.exe41.11%
- mfemms.exe37.78%
- services.exe20.02%
- mcagent.exe0.53%
- svchost.exe0.49%
- dllhost.exe0.02%
- rundll32.exe0.02%
Top Parents
- McUICnt.exe15.24%
- McInst.exe0.03%
- rundll32.exe0.01%
Top Children
- mcupdutl.exe99.36%
- mcsync.exe0.51%
- mcinfo.exe0.13%
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