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%

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