testinitsigs.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Test Initial Signatures - validates initial security signatures during agent deployment or updates.
testinitsigs.exe is the 325th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 27,730 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus Engine\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus and it is most often launched by downloader.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus Engine\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus78.61%
- C:\Program Files\Bitdefender\Endpoint Security21.39%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 51d80982a8c634511b333dd653b4f9d58bb1ec0c6d8f95dccc3fda3ff9ee7bdd16.55%
- 1851d6bf709db3e7542ea8ea7ae0b44b7fdf9d29680a921f3cb0f491c9e802a614.97%
- f0d2e1d753bc42ca2f1d97d147c14cf17f6e8df1cedb315cdd9b43def17f486112.81%
- fd7d27f063c26267021f88c352d24a7256a1eb89f8e902505bd376e6e923f2ea6.9%
- 8439273462f345378c1ec1ccd9848d884890a13cff6cf29c3ba93869c0e8d4085.89%
- 2c377e005ee14a9aea878440a900010618b060595a5d9905463a368cec5473bf5.55%
- 1d4e23d5634ae871bbc81916642d53a804f0c73e6243153d4d6fed2bb784a42d4.19%
- 4781636ed6132099f8b581f30cdb903b52e02254339ede10cc758ff65d0b669a3.06%
- f203703a7357b0da430367b7fab3f325c8e3b2ae1f060581884980ad8fb61b972.87%
- 872acc5126dda20d551ef1482ef4f8c07c20f0cb957def46b52cf98e8d4091752.45%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- downloader.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.exe100%
- sc.exe<0.01%
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