wa_3rd_party_host_64.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild and observed in the EchoTrail lab on Windows 11.
Summary
WatchGuard/Third-party Host (64-bit) - hosts third-party integration modules for a security or management platform.
wa_3rd_party_host_64.exe is the 438th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 15,442 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect and it is most often launched by PanGpHipMp.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect90.4%
- C:\ProgramData\...5.6%
- C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect202207073.77%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\LogMeIn\x640.23%
- C:\Program Files\CCleaner0.01%
- C:\Program Files\Piriform\CCleaner 7
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- df8986c95bf481d2ff04c7002b028bc443d851bf87445d8e7d24c19144e031c847.54%
- 354dde38618560ae02290bb5830d738c1b5aefb07eb507d16820150eaa331e4a46%
- 9ba7e43caf5e3734db8dae46efbc8058ab56ac1f6bdec853c45f546bace05c352.92%
- 9d7a6751997c99ca4f732222129b4b7e9939e58879615f817928fa1c9f7820522.68%
- 3b5dc6990a617fb5fbc28d19b312beb39f888c24d17909f27f91c60815a145070.57%
- eb1409ed1e670f75df8d8d1d48c29b88cd59ded4225b3c117bc434832204c4700.23%
- 8872ada3a2338cf8dbe46cb46f14f1ea07c733da882ed1213a72a57ae5fb01160.06%
- 0687f06acd282165703e8ec6ed537bc8ad8a5e4fdb98713d491e9ac35346f61c0.01%
- d40a50b84ced6cb57c8dc4680bf53b3dc1c459eab0785eae3fa6ccf08afa8da8
Code Signing
Signers by share of executions
- 100%Gen Digital Inc.ValidEmbedded signature · 1 hash
- Chain
- Gen Digital Inc.
- Sectigo Public Code Signing CA R36
- Sectigo Public Code Signing Root R46
- AAA Certificate Services
- Valid
- Jun 11, 2025 to Jun 10, 2028
- Hashes
- d40a50b84ced6cb57c8dc4680bf53b3dc1c459eab0785eae3fa6ccf08afa8da8100% of executions, first seen Sep 16, 2026
Full certificate detail on Team.
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
Top Parents
- PanGpHipMp.exe92.45%
- pluggablesvc.exe5.6%
- PanGpHip.exe1.71%
- LogMeIn.exe0.23%
- CCleaner64.exe0.01%
Top Children
- netsh.exe92.69%
- conhost.exe6.89%
- cmd.exe0.35%
- WerFault.exe0.07%
- ipconfig.exe0.01%
Lab record
- Installed from
- winget Piriform.CCleaner 7.11.1509.1940
- Publisher
- Gen Digital Inc.
- Persistence
- none
- Network
- none
- Command lines
- 1 pattern (1 launch)
- DLL loads
- 22 patterns (22 loads)
- Registry writes
- 2 patterns (2 writes)
- File writes
- 0 patterns (0 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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