EchoTrail

updater.exe

by Mozilla
Application

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild and observed in the EchoTrail lab on Windows 11.

Summary

Mozilla Firefox Software Updater manages automatic updates for the Firefox web browser.

updater.exe is the 91st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 277,453 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\mcafee\WebAdvisor and it is most often launched by updater.exe.

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91st
most commonly executed Windows program
277,453
observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\mcafee\WebAdvisor34.41%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\130.0.6679.06.54%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\132.0.6833.06.5%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\128.0.6537.05.22%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\138.0.7194.04.23%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\127.0.6490.04.16%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\128.0.6597.03.69%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\135.0.7023.02.83%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\131.0.6776.02.63%
  • C:\ProgramData\...2.38%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\152.0.7933.0
  • C:\Windows\SystemTemp\Google6736_516621414\bin
  • C:\Windows\SystemTemp\Google7688_894445218\bin
  • C:\Windows\SystemTemp\Google10076_276660042\bin

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 7f67129760223e5ddf31219f0b2e247555fbac85f4b6f933212ac091a21debf96.81%
  • c294551059a85542127811249b8e725d3ab885efdd4996b201db588899769e856.76%
  • 8de9266347276d18fe49f84b86f09e6035df2c10e39f22d85bf33d43cf0f5f2c5.43%
  • 437295233c61d4097fc54bc8fc3e5d2ae176d445fe42bde97135d3db1749cf254.41%
  • ebb428a4c1e29192617e7699513ec78512735110bba68bbee54dee34807094ae4.33%
  • c2a7c0fa80f228c2ce599e4427280997ea9e1a3f85ed32e5d5e4219dfb05ddb23.84%
  • e3eb70a25da3cf0563ebaa3b95622cad7423e447273bc7c779c7466f39eac7a22.94%
  • 68cbbaa86f68ec0679a770e4cdf36233047c9672fa4a23cf62e1544934b47e4c2.76%
  • 5dde29f028e75ee72f50902d20c41b699ef8fc5c294f04a321deac6909ffe4092.74%
  • 323c097defb278f09a20aaca7b05aea20a1c859414cca9caea263fa5a627a1ae2.32%
  • 8581d8934c6cb843fa78139535842e51deb87f882d3ae701b0ce2818086ab889

Process Ancestry

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Lab record

Installed from
winget Google.Chrome 153.0.8010.37
Publisher
Google LLC
Persistence
2 services, 3 scheduled tasks
Network
13 destinations
Command lines
7 patterns (116 launches)
DLL loads
92 patterns (5,681 loads)
Registry writes
96 patterns (6,810 writes)
File writes
44 patterns (276 writes)
HTTP requests
4 patterns (4 requests)
TLS connections
2 patterns (4 handshakes)
Named pipes
85 patterns (216 events)
Process access
8 patterns (34 events)
Driver loads
0 patterns (0 loads)
PowerShell blocks
0 patterns (0 blocks)
Remote threads
0 patterns (0 events)
Audit events
2 patterns (4 events)

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Security Analysis

What does updater.exe normally do?

Part of Mozilla software. Normal operation.

When is updater.exe suspicious?

Running from unexpected paths.

How do attackers abuse updater.exe?

Not commonly abused.

Detection guidance

No specific detection needed.

False positive notes

Normal Mozilla operation.

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