PVHelper.exe
by Various
Virtualization
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Parallels/Virtualization Helper - helper process for Parallels or similar virtualization software.
PVHelper.exe is the 196th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 76,105 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\SAAZOD.
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196th
most commonly executed Windows program
76,105
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\SAAZOD100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 5b12feedf05c9dbb7d3b37a47323eb6830e935e6b248b73078dbb707a16bd05882.05%
- b7f00a6f14ba21fd027de18e83e37290b30e8a1eae55043d66f245b0069ff85b17.95%
Process Ancestry
Top Children
- ZWbPe.exe64.92%
- conhost.exe20.8%
- ZScriCon.exe7.14%
- zExePos.exe6.52%
- regsvr32.exe0.19%
- zscccon64.exe0.19%
- powershell.exe0.14%
- find.exe0.1%
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