Update.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild and observed in the EchoTrail lab on Windows 11.
Summary
Generic update executable - handles application updates, commonly used by Squirrel (Electron app updater) and other frameworks.
Update.exe is the 410th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 17,869 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Users\... and it is most often launched by Teams.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Users\...95.89%
- C:\...0.91%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Monitoring Agent\patchman\110.82%
- C:\Windows\LTSvc\_LTUPDATE0.74%
- C:\ProgramData\...0.57%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\FMAuditOnsite0.37%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\Update0.37%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Monitoring Agent\patchman0.31%
- C:\Users\lab\AppData\Local\AnthropicClaude
- C:\Users\lab\AppData\Local\SquirrelTemp
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 2d6bfce0ef7e0fce225c45392d527b2cdfd55ce4530d9867896c5828309c2e0b14.97%
- 0ac7d42023d59691fc06b08dec5da6ecf2755542ad5fe05ca42fd1c3cf28627010.55%
- e9b493b0ad904368d4252980f2524f823d99b330b0521180ca77e8f30a1ac6007.11%
- 9b2de7e18319bc24ffadac02e1a1adc82571be94b4c63b075435868f232e27245.71%
- e8bf1ab3f7b65e9e801302d0d7e8e9a5f5f001f60f240d9a1ce3b1df390de2ca5.59%
- a69677e93f60c92be514d2a78696b13e0b5eaeb31be8362f9d458dd1a72b5b185.39%
- b393b6d5dd4c62facda964f68ef3b36dcce880584662482d6e24ba329c99953a4.77%
- c743333515342f8b88d795101fe3512fca8bf3d40dec550500ffe5afb421c9dd4.56%
- 11e3888f2681a09bbf6e87fff5f19fb6c2b7d5ec74c2dd536b680743f78ad8ac4.2%
- 2d0c3c3a07d8780a9e2895a7da7725f50f8d32e66885a524e20873ae0afa8edf2.83%
- 03444b7af776e00a890f485ce15966e4684f9c0cc599c24bca722ffecc42c339
- e5737280c0e6f47f983209efdd58c38263f8990dbbe12b5385997ec766d1f4d2
- 0572cea2a2db9eec94b9469d87444b72619d3c72fe01051ab834395e0a42dff7
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- Update.exe76.28%
- userinit.exe17.39%
- services.exe2.53%
- explorer.exe1.75%
- slack.exe0.61%
- Discord.exe0.58%
- atom.exe0.15%
- chrome.exe0.15%
- svchost.exe0.08%
Top Parents
- Teams.exe21.61%
- RingCentral Classic.exe19.76%
- Discord.exe19.18%
- explorer.exe16.33%
- RingCentral.exe10.66%
- Yammer.exe5.62%
- slack.exe2.63%
- LTSVC.exe1.6%
- runonce.exe0.75%
Top Children
- Teams.exe38.12%
- net1.exe8.94%
- net.exe8.94%
- schtasks.exe7.06%
- regsvr32.exe6.1%
- Discord.exe4.55%
- TeamViewer.exe4.44%
- Squirrel.exe3.7%
- conhost.exe2.23%
Lab record
- Installed from
- winget Anthropic.Claude 1.44121.2
- Publisher
- Anthropic, PBC
- Persistence
- none
- Network
- 2 destinations
- Command lines
- 5 patterns (6 launches)
- DLL loads
- 114 patterns (498 loads)
- Registry writes
- 58 patterns (264 writes)
- File writes
- 6,452 patterns (6,473 writes)
- HTTP requests
- 0 patterns (0 requests)
- TLS connections
- 0 patterns (0 handshakes)
- Named pipes
- 3 patterns (10 events)
- Process access
- 8 patterns (22 events)
- Driver loads
- 0 patterns (0 loads)
- PowerShell blocks
- 0 patterns (0 blocks)
- Remote threads
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Audit events
- 5 patterns (6 events)
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