PMESetup.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Patch Management Engine setup executable. Installs or updates a patch management agent component.
PMESetup.exe is the 160th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 104,543 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by winagent.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...98.31%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Monitoring Agent\featureres1.54%
- C:\ProgramData\...0.15%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- c12aa389e1af297fc1336b0770bd166edc69ebb41b32e0bed6a50910e95cc67399.85%
- c6a51b12b459d1eb15ab076ae8e372b215d22989a4ba9ce87684c84b6479c3580.01%
- 0252ba867bd8990f0e07ebd0ec78d5638c8d765b5cf67b2bb4b34d5ca14b08ad0.01%
- 3cf8bdbfcdf2c94c9631fc7bd3d5fa04be1fa20ff1d17a3f1dcd7563f4dad80f0.01%
- 3f3af82d99ad1d37d076ecbe4c74a70bdd2db55585fbbac1c0cf46c900428ce20.01%
- 7d2c162f51117d04fc13e7629645b9563974d372161b6d6a3a3e9c47492f2f370.01%
- 994c5d6ca3fc121194c6afcfea4f43fa929d7b4e72d3206b7a9b3a4a18125c420.01%
- bc0445089d7d9a2486f5b466e2f5bcae9ad4887d63cc8a8c05d71b16c64d925c0.01%
- cef13f9e042f2e255ff9b56b4213c1151db64c12c55690df50e7d57b2b2f37c70.01%
- e830e8852b7b4ab4ac5a9a83c0ebfb492e04a4fd7b28874b1f4896dd2ed5bfb30.01%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- winagent.exe100%
Top Children
- PMESetup.tmp100%
Security Analysis
What does PMESetup.exe normally do?
Part of Unknown (patch management) software.
When is PMESetup.exe suspicious?
Running from unexpected paths.
How do attackers abuse PMESetup.exe?
Not commonly abused.
Detection guidance
No specific detection needed.
False positive notes
Normal operation.
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