NvBackend.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
NVIDIA Backend - NVIDIA GeForce Experience backend for driver updates and optimization.
NvBackend.exe is the 654th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 6,397 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\Update Core and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\Update Core100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 50d002ff269741855986179d4b9d5a820c04e881b624afef0b76e80a68930f3d61.87%
- 0b7e0f7864c42e38aed4ca99aad236a4b49ca7ef85bf089988a2a40f000c868026.54%
- ad2dfda427e3ccb5c8404f0afafe71c64b862d2e26a67e1bfc2b40738fd0b8738.27%
- b00100f3e031d3e6757692ee5b2fcbb6a45fb003c7d55d3f840fbdfa9b8813861.74%
- f47dcbb14b5d940df218fb8123dbbdaec44416852d66307b30d2ae8e96b577f40.81%
- 9f2989005b3654deebedd0006ccea8c9e77151dbdfd51122f9387f319872f3ad0.66%
- 934d1189473409f62cb0a39ae8b398fb988919f964674f6f46cbe2a2d09f22a40.11%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe38.7%
- nvtray.exe21.4%
- explorer.exe5.02%
- nvstreamsvc.exe1.26%
- SubmitTelem.exe0.03%
- DropboxUpdate.exe0.02%
- GoogleUpdate.exe0.02%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe38.6%
- nvtray.exe31.95%
- NvBackend.exe28.01%
- nvstreamsvc.exe0.7%
- setup.exe0.41%
Top Children
- WLMerger.exe45.03%
- NvBackend.exe19.99%
- NvOAWrapperCache.exe10.74%
- dbInstaller.exe4.96%
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