AGSService.exe
Summary
Adobe Genuine Software Service - background service that validates Adobe software licensing and detects non-genuine installations.
AGSService.exe is the 264th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 47,066 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AdobeGCClient and it is most often launched by AGSService.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AdobeGCClient100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- fd2814e04a4b878432c4acf7e10d98f97e7ca93bd317cd2bef397770b5a4c87d23.1%
- d17c24e3971960f5cd9bb7e36f6425162f8d7ce9174b33fe5c7094773b0ed8d122.8%
- 1d61549a6e76adb4116dd4b25d6dc45434ada77eb6af99971a805b47a7a6e72b15.9%
- ddbcb718150a085e96d2b73d4e5f5aaa04cf701e1d05007cd4875756a462b0dc10.44%
- 9d4ebf6c7d6d03b0d797f3e4bde83e4a8b25093f9f07256f5d19909e953c77a55.58%
- d570e22fea89add2239bd8431f26e39ec8966fe12ad2162b82f74f8f6e08dac84.63%
- 75ce30978c30d32aaebb10868442ab658afa09908c128e778b1b3657bbd2aee62.92%
- 1be9320a38595cc388234dddeb700d3e2d3ff4d1d64903110916284dc48b9f4c2.29%
- 46de2392de9956780134c5317ca38329e162d15a18d167633bf30f35349b72042.25%
- 232f8b19729ea9be214c4a4b804996769952115e8fce4d6ad22195123fa67a761.66%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- AGSService.exe95.39%
- services.exe4.31%
- svchost.exe0.21%
Top Children
- AGSService.exe37.86%
- conhost.exe36.13%
- agshelper.exe1.18%
- WerFault.exe0.02%
- pcaui.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.