MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild and observed in the EchoTrail lab on Windows 11.
Summary
Microsoft Edge Update is the auto-updater service for the Microsoft Edge browser. It checks for, downloads, and installs Edge browser updates. It runs as a scheduled task and service.
MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe is the 39th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 917,853 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate99.68%
- C:\Users\...0.21%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Temp\...0.11%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Temp\EUA3A2.tmp
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Temp\EUABB1.tmp
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Temp\EUDBBA.tmp
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Temp\EU61A3.tmp
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Temp\EUCD62.tmp
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- bef9dbed290af17cf3f30cc43fc0a94cdadc540f171c25df1363b2e852d0a04230.78%
- 9c256d462f0640855e1ab3d2c658cb4edd7e061eb2782fd03481196d5ed93db524.16%
- a0628836960198f937f134e8a9c12a5ea38d682da3dd5e026170dfbc3eaa992e11.97%
- c0503e8d231583c691699493b13f2d148c351c19bf5be046701de3bed3a3c92a9.27%
- 9991ba022173f283ee99068b708f60ac5143fe0c81c9e3673cc7835b108a4f447.83%
- 7209d144d97ca57288e829fb5f026b5c4576433aaa7f5fb0adc6504a33b216564.91%
- 87c6f7d9b58f136aeb33c96dbfe3702083ec519aafca39be66778a9c27a687183.18%
- 656c675981144f6c81a2f70efa6aed04abb2d6076bd6307842eb298757a038672.74%
- 2e0eedb6316b5f2b2deaa0117add79d411e6b00c528b8760897124f91b37aeec1.56%
- bd9699e3da3de952145565d1825da68c3880c7e92af1d5ea94589d0a5820f6681.54%
- 5497dd84321887d18b62fae35689ea4a7d07cad7840853b2bb50bbf7bfac365e
- 04f2bf85ea2b6b6464d92cf196b64174cbf2e4c9ee304dc7de00c1de5622fda8
Code Signing
Signers by share of executions
- 100%Microsoft CorporationValidEmbedded signature · 1 hash
- Chain
- Microsoft Corporation
- Microsoft Code Signing PCA 2024
- Microsoft Root Certificate Authority 2011
- Valid
- Apr 16, 2026 to Apr 15, 2027
- Hashes
- 5497dd84321887d18b62fae35689ea4a7d07cad7840853b2bb50bbf7bfac365e100% of executions, first seen Sep 19, 2026
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Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
Top Parents
- svchost.exe51.36%
- services.exe12.3%
- taskeng.exe9.88%
Top Children
- MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe94.93%
- wermgr.exe0.63%
- setup.exe0.02%
Lab record
- Installed from
- winget Microsoft.WindowsSDK.10.0.22621 10.0.22621.2428
- Publisher
- Microsoft Corporation
- Persistence
- none
- Network
- 19 destinations
- Command lines
- 9 patterns (108 launches)
- DLL loads
- 107 patterns (7,298 loads)
- Registry writes
- 449 patterns (84,423 writes)
- File writes
- 131 patterns (671 writes)
- HTTP requests
- 0 patterns (0 requests)
- TLS connections
- 3 patterns (53 handshakes)
- Named pipes
- 1 pattern (108 events)
- Process access
- 35 patterns (712 events)
- Driver loads
- 12 patterns (12 loads)
- PowerShell blocks
- 0 patterns (0 blocks)
- Remote threads
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Audit events
- 0 patterns (0 events)
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Security Analysis
What does MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe normally do?
Located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate or user-level installation paths. Launched by taskeng.exe/taskhostw.exe (scheduled tasks), svchost.exe (service), and self-spawned. Periodic execution.
When is MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe suspicious?
Running from unexpected paths. Spawning shells or unusual processes.
How do attackers abuse MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe?
Not commonly abused directly. Update mechanisms in general can be targets for supply chain attacks, but this is not a per-process concern.
Detection guidance
No specific detection needed.
False positive notes
Normal periodic execution. Multiple instances during update checks.
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