vlc-cache-gen.exe
by VideoLAN
Sources: observed in the EchoTrail lab on Windows 11.
Summary
VLC media player (VLC media player, VideoLAN)
vlc-cache-gen.exe is not in the 2025 snapshot. It was observed in EchoTrail's behavior lab on Windows 11 24H2 on 2026-09-10 installed from winget package VideoLAN.VLC.
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4412th
most commonly executed Windows program
n/a
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC73.08%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC26.92%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- d50ce70dfabebbc11140348eec81006042d569877c56ee20afed05ea7a443fcb20.83%
- 3c37fb70f640326e54e0b1b97228266d384f8caf3a4ab182ccefaa7fb4d4b7da12.5%
- 4a1fd92619414b38d03c025aea9c0c7d7bc06fb800485a45850ff695741f9ac48.33%
- aaffeebd785f0cb44249abb39b081f0c1a80ede5aa0e499137c9c1aa3d16fd818.33%
- abbf9c57ad3068c8aafaf443297e9448e8657b6ac16e1a8bdde5ba87254708e18.33%
- 1f1b522d4a0e7596e9f329d7dfb2baafcf498c37cf1df91f95411527050d69424.17%
- 224425af5a52d9bc67517221cb08e649c7e7822b05a6733996c97384d1ce5c9d4.17%
- 276c5e546732a7b5585670943c84fe4ea782a601ad54ad4248605ad4ee9162104.17%
- 31c387f4db98b64204f55a2b38fc7de691788039faa2cb7e3d884ff9f17b6f664.17%
- 3eccd82f9ade48314695a74e089bb3842f9b925df97bcabaa70a7bbc12a6fde44.17%
- 8bf0d5a2bca0bbb09de532f8d8694928c978d9862aa8064f3b9a09058aaca9a4
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- chrome.exe42.86%
- vlc.exe23.81%
Top Parents
- msiexec.exe3.85%
Top Children
- conhost.exe100%
Lab record
- Installed from
- winget VideoLAN.VLC 3.0.23
- Publisher
- VideoLAN
- Persistence
- none
- Network
- none
- Command lines
- 3 patterns (5 launches)
- DLL loads
- 413 patterns (1,666 loads)
- Registry writes
- 2 patterns (5 writes)
- File writes
- 2 patterns (6 writes)
- HTTP requests
- 0 patterns (0 requests)
- TLS connections
- 0 patterns (0 handshakes)
- Named pipes
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Process access
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Driver loads
- 0 patterns (0 loads)
- PowerShell blocks
- 0 patterns (0 blocks)
- Remote threads
- 0 patterns (0 events)
- Audit events
- 0 patterns (0 events)
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