BraveUpdate.exe
by Brave Software
Web Browser
Summary
Brave Browser Update - handles automatic updates for the Brave browser.
BraveUpdate.exe is the 673rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 5,984 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Update and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
673rd
most commonly executed Windows program
5,984
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Update78.34%
- C:\Users\...21.59%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Temp\...0.07%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1ea12db0ccb12dd8cd85c5a4d90af2426d41586dc37aadb74fd2b0eb21dfb4b327.12%
- 3bcaea64455af57dc9920153bf3efd9884fa51315993f5b306109161a04d798619.12%
- 83c4a877e0e11e03a629b7c252862b3a8ca51e72b3911227386aaccc1e40d4bb9.64%
- 227b65f6b421617755e9e7027ff4a301e5623eb6d6d0ff2a6dc59604c847adbd7.49%
- a8251a21b705bc44ce5416ac2b68143ed704a0026453dd0d693d687c714c9d4f7.44%
- ba1bd593c6c394662fb984f150476d638291a2c69daaab915a063e95acdf39f06.5%
- 2185f37cf6b75934289e7c6d4187f54a17c4662c83f4da8062957286915823725.65%
- 227f3c6b81d1cda5fb41fb5ee4bce76fc4cb5b77b059671ff59b525dbb33efa25.38%
- 0785b218eff57473eb8bb5139d38945335bb2d4843212fe15154b6674ac9f2f74.06%
- 8fb9fc35d27324ea5a2e8ab17572cd7e008565d50d191abefa441005cc0f96003.76%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- svchost.exe66.79%
- services.exe14.99%
- BraveUpdate.exe5.4%
Top Children
- BraveCrashHandler64.exe33.84%
- BraveCrashHandler.exe33.76%
- BraveUpdate.exe26.09%
- setup.exe0.97%
- brave.exe0.08%
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.