Upgrade.exe

by Various

Installer

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

Generic upgrade executable - handles software version upgrades for various applications.

Upgrade.exe is the 256th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 49,073 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\VIPRE Business Agent\Definitions and it is most often launched by SBAMSvc.exe.

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256th

most commonly executed Windows program

49,073

observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

C:\Program Files (x86)\VIPRE Business Agent\Definitions99.8%
C:\Program Files\Common Files\AV\McAfee VirusScan0.2%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

b363d311694227cd31fe38355ca4c2320eb45f2da264491e1b7e2a8acc01843865.28%
56af6ff0f56b9db28ee7df2c8dcfb41138816ad43089f2dbf901a099ce86f67234.44%
28457524f92ab4f8d67525f12af8195880ed38728a65d0bccbaacc1f7a0dc9940.04%
0dcdab3fdc1651aeb78b5c54a9f109fe907b1020ec5e1cabbe607ca0b90e6ef70.04%
cf97f5bb5f07c2f018d54fa0d9e2ed9347e894c80ec4536bdfa2dc15012370970.03%
07dccf7dd60f2d47f7ec156ea80a26dce4d66de84d8e24ab6aaa7613f029e4d40.03%
868b46cb62804a7bdb6c4330faf8968a2d3ff89ac099b1cf1323ece9343ad04f0.02%
d1a5e7559a90dc7fed19575dccb7e30dda621e209c3c4ac210f671ca8f82b0ac0.02%
bfc0f7fc66cbafdb34551e4c4befd0fd5359b3010a08661ce597f13db57f8ca20.02%
33526f22c4a037c00a618d77e9d5f1ad33b4c8188d7830c36f24449f83748c0c0.01%

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