Squirrel.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild and observed in the EchoTrail lab on Windows 11.
Summary
Squirrel update framework (used by Electron apps)
Squirrel.exe is the 2124th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 268 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Users\... and it is most often launched by Update.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Users\...90.91%
- C:\ProgramData\...9.09%
- C:\Users\lab\AppData\Local\AnthropicClaude\app-1.44121.2
- C:\Users\lab\AppData\Local\AnthropicClaude\app-1.52386.3
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 201ef301de7a935635354684f7e1907050e2b66de2297ffed8f63564d784dd636.65%
- 2d6bfce0ef7e0fce225c45392d527b2cdfd55ce4530d9867896c5828309c2e0b3.99%
- 3ac025dba338ddae4f74eeaef6d7ad0c941987f2cf5940369ba516a1c82fc6573.99%
- 52bdb3052f9960e8b68016c69f1cc98ff68afecd9b9430037e9a9db3b6ee89423.99%
- 87a5069a402d1927992ee9685b9eef09fc9dcd69e6fc0d5f8dc3011c9adfc58d3.99%
- 307a780f7ea5cebf7dab2c6848e9aba8fda8be4420b8e963af399296ae2b085d3.72%
- 01a5f019a0d150a6f8c51e4ef1d7aad1be4db6b2bdd9d4e97434c047b621cb143.19%
- e9b493b0ad904368d4252980f2524f823d99b330b0521180ca77e8f30a1ac6002.39%
- b5832bfd2441885e57766531042213205a3f18464d8f033e4e5c25581e4597c12.13%
- a69677e93f60c92be514d2a78696b13e0b5eaeb31be8362f9d458dd1a72b5b181.86%
- 03444b7af776e00a890f485ce15966e4684f9c0cc599c24bca722ffecc42c339
- 0572cea2a2db9eec94b9469d87444b72619d3c72fe01051ab834395e0a42dff7
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- slack.exe63.87%
- Yammer.exe5.88%
- atom.exe1.68%
- RingCentral.exe1.68%
Top Parents
- Update.exe99.63%
Top Children
Lab record
- Installed from
- winget Anthropic.Claude 1.44121.2
- Publisher
- Anthropic, PBC
- Persistence
- none
- Network
- none
- Command lines
- 3 patterns (3 launches)
- DLL loads
- 51 patterns (154 loads)
- Registry writes
- 2 patterns (2 writes)
- File writes
- 5 patterns (7 writes)
- HTTP requests
- 0 patterns (0 requests)
- TLS connections
- 0 patterns (0 handshakes)
- Named pipes
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Process access
- 1 pattern (1 event)
- Driver loads
- 0 patterns (0 loads)
- PowerShell blocks
- 0 patterns (0 blocks)
- Remote threads
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Audit events
- 3 patterns (3 events)
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