Plex Media Scanner.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Plex Media Scanner - scans media libraries to identify and catalog movies, TV shows, and music for Plex Media Server.
Plex Media Scanner.exe is the 343rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 25,642 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 425ec68c16030b9e490139797f090b896daa7541b389fa81c47ff784714ec18265.39%
- 51f56c96bca820c77741fd474e6b834dbe912db26f94f108d4e25e8a7c6542f334.61%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe91.23%
Top Children
- conhost.exe100%
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