steamservice.exe
by Valve
Gaming
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Steam Client Service for updates and bootstrapping
steamservice.exe is the 2189th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 247 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Steam and it is most often launched by services.exe.
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2189th
most commonly executed Windows program
247
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Steam92.03%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\bin7.97%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 964736f4363a78a27227f0fe706e97afad1b24f4a1e9c28df02952f210c88fbe10.82%
- b2e28b620519e8c172335369e922650e04ce440d051aecb6207098c088a6f56210.07%
- cba4f62c1bbde0c03bb847539e5c84b5ae9efe1e6ba5551f2c24750175e97a8b9.33%
- c67d077a293e2b70d34cb100887ece9a4a8feea446e85700c3ce2a8caace690c6.72%
- 82c3192b883e41e845c100b201508771dcbb6e6dcff533a53cf0eac44a8604145.97%
- 73437df51a9b1ee1f49a18c62ea7d010ecc54593a1f3aae6385a5721a37320055.6%
- 8cc2b3ca91c717b2e1f684138b07c2c1723dd0e035d60f744e20be36a796ace85.22%
- b99b236bdcbbdf518bae47efaaa079c45398942dba8d2f196f30eb2fb5b4d88e4.1%
- 5b9efdedf4c5c5d7120a431fbe545365c63cd01fa0fbb0728dbabb19a2b57b602.99%
- 8ccb7d8e31679f00f28c2f8a84ceb3c3afd5fbfe1c5f2c2248ac1f6f006e55752.99%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe92.73%
- chrome.exe3.64%
- Uninstall.exe3.64%
Top Parents
- services.exe90.7%
- steam.exe7.64%
Top Children
- conhost.exe31.37%
- cmd.exe7.84%
- vcredist_x64.exe3.92%
- vcredist_x86.exe3.92%
- regsvr32.exe1.96%
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