reader_sl.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Adobe Reader Speed Launcher - preloads Adobe Reader components at startup for faster PDF opening.
reader_sl.exe is the 509th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 11,169 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader and it is most often launched by AdobeARM.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader90.63%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader7.53%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader1.51%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader0.32%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- a8f964bb1623295131320f9a0a3817c5ea9318485c849ac5dcbf0255c9263dea67.02%
- 8bed44823706382b3848534e1cc9d26d90511d1f195fc08f6be0045f415377ce9.35%
- 5d7f7d7e999bd5a4dd0d31d5dffc325e53f52496b14d2da179192fdb149dcf0a7.69%
- 80b8fbc52783610f73c305ab8d502adb497754c0eadb19bab49b2ef191d4b05f4.22%
- 2d0b45fa608dd8336722d85be930bb0d271fc407230a6f5082fdb3b058f671191.98%
- 07aac8a8d1a10ab9763c25c0762d82e657969d37f9794937fdcc5f580b0e220a1.55%
- 3a7c9a57415eba012aa5ef8a9b5380734325fe5a52678c9e66f7a464570347fa1.52%
- c4eb2df64ba3cabbe1de24936d0c7f09324cc7b355eabd2f4ec6f0bd7526162e1.32%
- 74b4856edbf9bf8127cc1a4a76d01a1ddb9d536406324a2dee1cee9f5c2699541.07%
- 7fa3bdd3fe2bb536e44488a975d67d63b9ced77d9707ccbcefb17de8e0d562b70.87%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe58.74%
- AdobeARM.exe27.59%
- AcroRd32.exe4.2%
- taskeng.exe4.01%
- runonce.exe2.47%
- Acrobat.exe1.63%
- explorer.exe0.37%
Top Parents
- AdobeARM.exe75.39%
- reader_sl.exe24.28%
- runonce.exe0.32%
- wermgr.exe0.01%
Top Children
- reader_sl.exe67.67%
- AcroRd32.exe25.07%
- RdrCEF.exe7.26%
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