PDFLauncher.exe
by Adobe
Application Support
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Adobe PDF launcher utility
PDFLauncher.exe is the 1906th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 353 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Users\... and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
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1906th
most commonly executed Windows program
353
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Users\...100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 6f6e994b769318061fd2bdec2d833478ab4051f1e5a7356f408ed0affd29244a100%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe51.63%
- explorer.exe24.18%
- WerFault.exe18.3%
- runonce.exe3.92%
- svchost.exe0.65%
- winlogon.exe0.65%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe73.94%
- OUTLOOK.EXE20.4%
- acrotray.exe3.4%
- VISIO.EXE1.13%
- WINWORD.EXE0.57%
Top Children
- Acrobat.exe99.15%
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