acrotray.exe
Summary
Adobe Acrobat Tray - system tray icon for Adobe Acrobat providing quick access to PDF tools.
acrotray.exe is the 742nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 4,605 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat and it is most often launched by runonce.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat72.42%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat17.44%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat7.74%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat1.6%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat0.8%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- b3698325fcaf3bd2f52d094cc632346c03cddfe3b24aa17d282606afff637ed311.91%
- 9f9ba30168528ba6be8e4fa65887c2dce6b7f69c853b5a55bf1668ac45d3dac711.39%
- d097ceaaa6d7f487a973630b95299f49c15282780fc58c6bddf486a8c367dbf44.91%
- 7ecba553433edf2c032c761728461e6d6085a7492316b46f288166af1ec0582c4.5%
- a7d3548aa6ea8d6bdac7ee09559447d5392d18871b877a62eaa956a68fb56a9a4.37%
- e6012320cbb282cbab75d1d7e59ebaf291e904d3ca40a0d12c8802a389e1bb753.92%
- 5564b31ff69f40eceb32805374d22cd7011a094b0d11ebe1b99b53bb91b9e1543.17%
- eae7264d4293ce2a155f33bebc76cd6eb1f2fd61cde6c47d60d441c466175c4c2.99%
- 5ec5020df730c1ee28cc7169fea7963111d2bc1c20ea3c1fa44441ff4f2d06a72.72%
- 237718f0485f513bfba5103ada94b1da85e644f2213f398bcd2e2003315f61052.65%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe95.38%
- userinit.exe3.26%
- services.exe0.58%
- EXCEL.EXE0.12%
- firefox.exe0.12%
- OUTLOOK.EXE0.12%
- Acrobat.exe0.04%
- adobe_licutil.exe0.04%
- chrome.exe0.04%
- ONENOTE.EXE0.04%
Top Parents
- runonce.exe77.01%
- OUTLOOK.EXE10.27%
- explorer.exe8.84%
- WINWORD.EXE1.97%
- POWERPNT.EXE0.5%
- msiexec.exe0.37%
- splwow64.exe0.28%
- EXCEL.EXE0.22%
- chrome.exe0.2%
- Acrobat.exe0.09%
Top Children
- acrodist.exe67.99%
- LogTransport2.exe23.26%
- Acrobat.exe4.88%
- adobe_licutil.exe3.44%
- notepad.exe0.15%
- PDFLauncher.exe0.13%
- AcroRd32.exe0.08%
- FoxitReader.exe0.01%
- WerFault.exe0.01%
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.