UpdateAssistant.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Update Assistant - guides users through major Windows version upgrades (feature updates).
UpdateAssistant.exe is the 255th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 50,388 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\UpdateAssistant and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\UpdateAssistant100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9d21fddbbc2065dff7f1db8fc45c6ea0e9e66f8de5d25d20aee8188eb1f02c6e67.96%
- 5cd78075cc2713ad25c76d2ab2e12865e68373264e4a386146638c9964e6050013.51%
- fd5f684ea52d159e7f68e88f5c93d7e4e5399b5718da9ec234cda3dd0b32981c5.67%
- 88e5c0549cb30c3f2358d9f50779ee29a66dc29d3454fe98a085bd934eb5f3c85.42%
- a68ab7f9b3f302b7d23c241d2d64fdecff9473eb69965584ac1c06f46f105c083.48%
- 75a507123ba5c55004b4d582a1b6cfa92720bb39e82c31b8fe57f20d73bc0ada2%
- a53eca8063f5aea26b545186f4dd00eafcce877259b6d8a8915f8abbf647a8581.27%
- c6962a261ff1480c8123fc4d54933234de9e09763e09419062a17e6a60c47baa0.18%
- 158679d0ffd153f871b54a3a87d56c71c8f054160c6fd6c97472cb0fa4f1ceea0.15%
- 6be60dc925e17aeea33fe054e7e186f0a0325d8bbcb2e0f8146514a2b9c8780d0.14%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe98.92%
- svchost.exe1.08%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe99.38%
- taskeng.exe0.62%
Top Children
- Windows10Upgrade.exe66.49%
- Windows10UpgraderApp.exe33.51%
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