qcshm.exe
by Various
Application Support
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
QC Shared Memory - shared memory component for quality control or QuickConnect tools.
qcshm.exe is the 694th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 5,609 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\mcafee\mqs and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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694th
most commonly executed Windows program
5,609
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\mcafee\mqs97.09%
- C:\...2.91%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 31019baef011834bd3f094eaeb6b45179380d580f8a7669c8bce5a20dc88229370.23%
- ebb65ceed3779a2d94c1364aebb551770ab3c674f930862e83f7f5986847025626.57%
- 7b5a781c214b45b11396fda001219a5417e51302957db3fffb537763b55e3b262.92%
- 9d90b081298e22f2123e22cd3a0cec21f128cbb9300218d0427551885bf569790.27%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe99.7%
- MCUPDA~1.EXE0.15%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe99.95%
- McInst.exe0.05%
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