vs_installer.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Visual Studio Installer
vs_installer.exe is the 4646th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 22 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
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4646th
most commonly executed Windows program
22
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 132bffa8411ad30aeb704db5a95387c4aa590384fb33950eb6a10113e8474fd857.89%
- 75c71a06b198c7b3d25859fa148933717d25386ae9e67ec06401a7229bc0061f26.32%
- f86b17f2d41e3b0f882cda9affb70460e486887f38416fe4507d0d04a3b30a4510.53%
- b1e0c4fab71d210c4cffeb1ea24f47e729871de2fa06d81a8cf0371397f23e7f5.26%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe33.33%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe54.55%
- devenv.exe18.18%
Top Children
- vs_installershell.exe92.86%
- setup.exe7.14%
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