UpdateTrustedSites.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Updates trusted sites list in Internet Explorer/Edge zone settings. Often deployed via GPO or management agents for corporate proxy and site trust configuration.
UpdateTrustedSites.exe is the 42nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 901,674 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\CCM and it is most often launched by CcmExec.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\CCM100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 79361acd3d5cd93a279815817543e3a5463902bf7473715f44e8c8f724fbc3a241.18%
- 7e279b38590f4ab8920b17e37f4b74cf79e6b3d705a8a3a4fda73476ee7baa2d36.65%
- 9e76123b7c961b6b1e107c5c312b91774779a55f16ccdc0d251a7e8467fab61d13.74%
- 50f5e912600ae969e60ff43a14a44cd528b0f132245876b9ab95eb113a1ef82b7.45%
- 580b482ae69e5c8e9e306a161e59af51aa166c2d782ac2a41db8fbaad9bea4d70.64%
- c3ba51fd13c708ec253011c3a6e3be5d7dcacc43c66ecbaea774ed560f972f740.2%
- efda00a7154700dcea2c59c769f7dbb7df21170de895f2e16195eae4b08db14c0.13%
- 5559c7e9d37e1b9c4d545dd48ffd9e15ff3bd77e0d16f82f50ce5eaba4948efa<0.01%
- 5d24397022aba72ad95f34b5a194950a767d35a250b4f55190d04ba20aa4ef11<0.01%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- CcmExec.exe100%
Top Children
- conhost.exe100%
- WerFault.exe<0.01%
- chrome.exe<0.01%
Security Analysis
What does UpdateTrustedSites.exe normally do?
Part of Unknown (enterprise deployment tool) software.
When is UpdateTrustedSites.exe suspicious?
Running from unexpected paths.
How do attackers abuse UpdateTrustedSites.exe?
Not commonly abused.
Detection guidance
No specific detection needed.
False positive notes
Normal operation.
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