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Adobe CEF Helper.exe

by Adobe
Application Support

Summary

Adobe CEF Helper - Chromium Embedded Framework helper for Adobe Creative Cloud HTML-based UI.

Adobe CEF Helper.exe is the 1000th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 2,059 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Desktop Common\HEX and it is most often launched by Creative Cloud.exe.

1000th
most commonly executed Windows program
2,059
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Desktop Common\HEX73.75%
  • C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Desktop Common\HEX26.25%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • fb24b84de14eb304119ed29039e2539b68ad3b3124967046fb36d68a66acadba18.66%
  • 2bcc34efd6b98df265f46376e352bafa3dbaa5ad3bb1462ccf87d3fc1da5ad6016.47%
  • fb56aeaa194bb83ab0213a1f15e282ba5f6a6f0ac047be70449b0f4d3f1af5b113.51%
  • 55977b219bdc99adcca6778f62c9b82ea98d327cf7384338d7a6a5faf40462c511.01%
  • 0242c885027836e924a8f8aa69d01714f8c6158c91d5b67e5e4879a7e55f0d1d7.7%
  • 7a874a1c07a416fd162ed29799d2a89c0942a8b5026f900a418bbf1f7c294e824.33%
  • 8a49ef489b1793f482dad6b06c86641e0da9d4796ee6df840e198a43e6ce9a704.28%
  • 508feb007fc0602c36851181bae79a136f001e1569880f40392633b07010ed873.77%
  • 677b416b10b238528003ead6ca874cdcc054c969ff0132bfea23d4896f3d14d43.37%
  • 0ec5f9ffe8a4e97b673c34ea993835b6616ee632ec9ae643a5ed10e3898531be3.26%

Process Ancestry

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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.