cat.exe
by GNU
Development Tool
Summary
GNU cat file concatenation utility
cat.exe is the 1893rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 358 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by bash.exe.
1893rd
most commonly executed Windows program
358
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...99.72%
- C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin0.28%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1dd069ef0dc312e8f4ca7e4d20c785612d23a138d93a1553d564c0eaba45b2b599.72%
- 596b86addbfec9f672c11622f1e78acd089663cd956a90bdabeeeff0c34767930.28%
Process Ancestry
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.