Acrobat.exe
by Adobe
Productivity
Summary
Adobe Acrobat - PDF creation, editing, and management application.
Acrobat.exe is the 180th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 86,910 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
180th
most commonly executed Windows program
86,910
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat88.24%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat8.28%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat3.4%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\x86\Acrobat0.05%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat0.02%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat<0.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 2e3073a3f23ea1b07a401b927f4e607242a284024ef813e0711ff73c3710ef2e11.73%
- a0e031fc5f554e4328f23732270956266d3ea2ac66bcbc053a8506e1c9654d6c10.97%
- 742184ac06d6e380d03d3aa17b16f15d94174ff8d635c5c4098e4e5f56a992b84.53%
- 665a3f8bd458180edd60e6b3e5e334bc726fe941164901c75c7e74d8bd8a05cb4.34%
- c0212214947e0d9b5f1061b442de3c9f44445a967ca8a08515115ad5a2d89f1e3.72%
- 2f0408c086286cb7ed491877fe475f763d15a0dcb4bc23a0c4539c16b8e56b4c3.69%
- 33702a23f8bb22331e8f5b47ca9dc30e1b696ec57493fca1d2aa1b7dba844ffe3.04%
- 3ab15bf366253ec24c036dd6ff571427eb0e1559718ef0f74ace853e34d7f4d92.94%
- 6864054dd06ef868d5a09455c9fe8a69bd317c0843bc4e54d4ffd8766daad07c2.56%
- 3bcad2171b77c485cb54cb4e3e2b26efa7ce5ea236c88e49c4ba4be0f3ad51222.08%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe56.61%
- explorer.exe34.25%
- svchost.exe3.68%
- WerFault.exe1.71%
- runonce.exe0.96%
- OUTLOOK.EXE0.71%
- winlogon.exe0.47%
- OfficeClickToRun.exe0.24%
- Acrobat.exe0.16%
- chrome.exe0.15%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe62.69%
- OUTLOOK.EXE19.36%
- Acrobat.exe6.52%
- AdobeCollabSync.exe2.24%
- acrobat_sl.exe1.73%
- WINWORD.EXE1.52%
- chrome.exe0.62%
- prevhost.exe0.53%
- acrotray.exe0.52%
- InDesign.exe0.47%
Top Children
- AcroCEF.exe28.25%
- AdobeARM.exe19.3%
- LogTransport2.exe17.93%
- adobe_licutil.exe11.78%
- Acrobat.exe10.69%
- AdobeCollabSync.exe5.96%
- splwow64.exe1.18%
- AdobeGCClient.exe0.54%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.