adobe_licensing_helper.exe
Summary
Adobe Licensing Helper - manages Adobe Creative Cloud license verification.
adobe_licensing_helper.exe is the 903rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 2,753 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Desktop Common\LCC and it is most often launched by Adobe Desktop Service.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Desktop Common\LCC99.24%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\P70.76%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 2288bf37b0a6cbd6defc22d6b10fd12a8a48c6197dbb57912a69868a33abfe9866.22%
- 689dfd5da48edeb9cb3e6b40b12e6ecbb10ceb7eedc240fd512d80f8beb1bc0c10.86%
- 07de259a0303cd111e589e99b9de18fe655d10208955b9f4ad5e4825891951b08.51%
- 01c20d7f8fd102f1c0558bc5e6f7f013f41e35f471a41059c658f4da2476b3968.42%
- 90b39db6b87a73acce697dbdc66fa7d3ff2bf4ac24e972a795d6ef971978eff72.93%
- c57a2cd1ab8253c8f9816e8f0367ffd5645d31a6eca6c0469abf4178400b94f81.49%
- 894bc0912d633b19b13887e5ca9cce606058d846cdff961664e072563ac5b02a1.17%
- 0f202d2447a8958ce86d0816edeab19a31da444fb548e72721ca60c93dad8abe0.41%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- Creative Cloud.exe98.52%
- adobe_licutil.exe0.94%
- firefox.exe0.4%
- explorer.exe0.13%
Top Parents
- Acrobat.exe0.51%
- Photoshop.exe0.07%
- acrotray.exe0.04%
Top Children
- conhost.exe99.29%
- AdobeIPCBroker.exe0.32%
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.