appupdate.exe
by Various
Installer
Summary
Application Update utility - generic application auto-update process.
appupdate.exe is the 199th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 74,527 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\Temp\... and it is most often launched by invcol.exe.
199th
most commonly executed Windows program
74,527
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\Temp\...99.43%
- C:\Temp\...0.48%
- C:\Users\...0.09%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- abd1823d2030d58994d5e2640bc9a88648fbaccf5de7fcf2d5ad7510b3bac0c924.25%
- 664297f2369d1ebdf13239b160e4feae87d320557097e7344bdfbc80affc00e09.44%
- 95bc1d5d4d3dee4832ff936bd23267acb5c175a0febb7ce243fe0f205c221b4c7.32%
- 2f187867ff3fd164e101fc83cd4dd75a5d8c4cc4aa15631d0f9f8feefd4075a66.74%
- dffbab67a38ffd7936f276fe2795a00dd5ec2ff730268d95a2a8a9c47145b7ee5.23%
- b5181a4fe1c6a44cf7d00ad8864cf1321ac41e0e7613c929fb3d4c80283a4ef55.19%
- f8aebc9ad6524c28ca6ef48a29293cb354ce00d8d8248a902285fe716f5ec2d94.68%
- e59451fed32662cf7e951806fd743574ecbfc3b26c5dc9e3fe82426334c17d034.59%
- 713b77c39fe94fcffdc84ecd4762b988ebd1874b29c628ad621f510fb29039304.19%
- bf446da8c1756e3c35d7c315bc712856e0043c18540d97622467a6720c462fc53.52%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- InvColPC.exe100%
Top Parents
- invcol.exe100%
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.