steamwebhelper.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Steam Web Helper - embedded Chromium browser for Steam client store and community pages.
steamwebhelper.exe is the 914th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 2,670 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\bin\cef\cef.win7x64 and it is most often launched by steamwebhelper.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\bin\cef\cef.win7x6496.44%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\bin\cef\cef.win73.56%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- f3cf4a8baa3d8ce7ce59765571861167e9a62fc797776a8136d593cb1077e2f314.3%
- d053eb8b0f32f63e2b44b5a9b94269d26f339664a32e2394e2ca31758b6855ee11.79%
- fbd8fa4f9d8109b61238040a4da9c139479f6c3941c9124ca17f6e77bd5778a110.77%
- 90101eded3437c62470bea4b0635dfc442f70e9daab4fbdbbd7f55c877153fc38.25%
- be62229a5471718bd1dffb1a8ee351bf90ae13adc085ed1cf8556f9f5035e97e8.25%
- 25ad1cea0d92ca9bba5acc7987d3fec38cd656c7cfe6fdb492258f4f8f13e5cb5.93%
- 6544f4a7513c8d54705270713bc1f2b0ee22111477d8aba7a86d94eae33f18644.24%
- b18a514244b87061b6ca874b392910d6d05c256e6441544ce41f7d3c807e8e2f3.73%
- 1dace56cc6d2b22ba23aecba2f7e1bacfb931dc1919cebc8c9f95d11737198ee3.54%
- 08f3a47eea92ac4a47733c26706f26083361f640eaf49605e2efdf8355654b822.95%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- steam.exe83.51%
- explorer.exe16.49%
Top Parents
- steamwebhelper.exe91.54%
- steam.exe8.46%
Top Children
- steamwebhelper.exe99.96%
- notepad.exe0.04%
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