adobe_licutil.exe
Summary
Adobe License Utility - manages Adobe Creative Cloud licensing and activation.
adobe_licutil.exe is the 513th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 11,106 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\P7 and it is most often launched by Acrobat.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\P793.85%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\P66.15%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- ce87d7a20aa9315f3888ab4572383b3e433ce6e5188403e8975a00397d9ab39448.76%
- 0a6c718d15eafd2b64aef3fa6f2985242cc623761fe7ff9024902dac02cbe6f412.51%
- 1b963ceaddaacb0aa9bcbceecbe774e8558b4b03716c330f8c3dfbd4a361e43710.25%
- 53fe8407a1a5788ddddf11f59b3beee3281ea0bbbe60d4cc3816abae0a79bddf8.18%
- 915b0d0608b93008e5b773e025608375d87d25487023f2295a619fdd103eea457.81%
- 1374ae00732cd3158c34532e7f90ebf5f42d8b80a64e26d2bb81a0fd9d397d306.55%
- e8a425e6b9ca4595e2fb380a905a3d94390d0ef7bf5357b8d07a6ceb22cbe3f53.15%
- 1fc5a85ad217d5dc0e82d81ff90b064ede4ad9c0b2aca742fdb9d33434accb8b1.61%
- 38f4a71a286f30e49ca755c2b3325dfb09697f42dd79da93ddcb9b3adeb9345d1.09%
- 82b2764786cb17fcb20c7df7e80ab7fc1175bdae79587be3134e4a56f08590000.07%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe62.86%
- OUTLOOK.EXE23.97%
- runonce.exe2.35%
- firefox.exe2.13%
- WINWORD.EXE1.3%
- InDesign.exe1.27%
- acrotray.exe0.49%
- OpenWith.exe0.4%
- Creative Cloud.exe0.37%
Top Parents
- Acrobat.exe73.33%
- InDesign.exe7.74%
- Photoshop.exe4.83%
- Illustrator.exe3.03%
- AfterFX.exe2.94%
- acrotray.exe2.86%
- acrodist.exe0.11%
Top Children
- AdobeGCClient.exe36.26%
- conhost.exe35.72%
- adobe_lichelper.exe26.98%
- WerFault.exe<0.01%
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.