steam.exe
by Valve
Gaming
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Steam gaming platform client
steam.exe is the 1576th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 604 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
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1576th
most commonly executed Windows program
604
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 216261378fe424ea072bac7b871774a36dd29fca5c8b860bcbf1d917573c9d5d22.85%
- c38e4da006945cc26c4e296f1d4fb89da5f2288813bcfa28498d31a4e3bc2df68.08%
- d656d280d783abb3e0e085ca97c1616407430b4816a8d7803fa94281195837247.21%
- e7534572f457c4a6aa5fc339a38a961d21c4e0717c3b8b2cd6feb04e076a0dd36.85%
- 5e42deba2b15b9f017cfdcaf378948321834b8f138f3c1a04b9c57f3d92ed9196.5%
- b618e248b9fb1eb6d48e90d149f16b5c3922a922e611cb903e36a5a45e928e695.1%
- f7c9277f6c3bb8b5f85cadcb64fa44442b4ca9001dc0c703c32593abc2ea9f554.92%
- c4a05899a80975c209dc6a160b8c89157df2ae49d0e428ae4fdf0ecd4471ac4a4.57%
- b3d0d8f32faaf036d470a51fae2d89d4fa24b67ceb480769fdfef8505e002a113.34%
- 59f44a8af735b4116fbf5795d5904bc60af5ad2b6510f7fdf7dd1c303bce9daa2.99%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe71.67%
- explorer.exe21.67%
- svchost.exe3.33%
- dllhost.exe1.67%
- steam.exe1.67%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe56.46%
- OVRServer_x64.exe13.58%
- steam.exe8.61%
- chrome.exe7.12%
- sihost.exe1.66%
- steamtours.exe0.66%
- vrserver.exe0.66%
- dllhost.exe0.33%
- SoTGame.exe0.33%
- rundll32.exe0.17%
Top Children
- GameOverlayUI.exe19.93%
- steamwebhelper.exe11.36%
- SoTGame.exe6.62%
- steam.exe2.4%
- steamservice.exe0.46%
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