CEPHtmlEngine.exe
Summary
CEF HTML Engine - Chromium Embedded Framework HTML rendering engine used by Steam and other applications.
CEPHtmlEngine.exe is the 427th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 16,213 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2018\Required\CEP\CEPHtmlEngine and it is most often launched by CEPHtmlEngine.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2018\Required\CEP\CEPHtmlEngine22.26%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018\CEPHtmlEngine16.34%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2018\Support Files\Contents\Windows\CEPHtmlEngine12.9%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2017\Required\CEP\CEPHtmlEngine10.8%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC 2018\Resources\CEP\CEPHtmlEngine9.49%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2017\Support Files\Contents\Windows\CEPHtmlEngine6.24%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC 2017\Resources\CEP\CEPHtmlEngine5.6%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2018\Support Files\CEPHtmlEngine5.24%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2019\Support Files\Contents\Windows\CEPHtmlEngine2.46%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019\CEPHtmlEngine2.14%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- bd6af37c059cdde89363ff379c62372d07a358b1f390ccbb44197edd2716338e10.45%
- ff773b5d1b0015aaffea636e1db40257848526887a1cd29393172e3fcd5792378.62%
- 383452f444c3819efc6e79064f805ac5a550e1109e96234e69620fbe2324689b8.5%
- f67312e57204dc10d464a8d2113b4c0014a6a50ba1b50555f13f792d4aaf8e838%
- 786a9fc8d284366d4fa6a5362115dafc8215234c8143b92fc03d0771abc3aaf66.37%
- 7e5e8d176629a7d23c38a098ad5c8079c5a075de12a7b7e186f617698b08fb6d6.04%
- acc90ca12cea5bb788916c34315d0d239645148c9b716325d9eb43830452cd8b5.72%
- 9ff2b9f8babb267e92cb5d90d9354708da4ccb25846851ec47cc3757f52017f95.55%
- 792dbd083d8e139b26a422c14b641c0dd0d2d3804be101be679053ff11cf57f25.51%
- 5ba6f780853530c5f0cc3564368f973f64b312e4149ec326a8797c49e65870034.01%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe32.08%
- Photoshop.exe22.2%
- Adobe Premiere Pro.exe13.26%
- Illustrator.exe12.37%
- InDesign.exe10.42%
- AfterFX.exe4.3%
- OpenWith.exe1.06%
- OUTLOOK.EXE0.22%
- chrome.exe0.21%
Top Parents
- CEPHtmlEngine.exe64.34%
- Photoshop.exe12.26%
- Illustrator.exe8.11%
- InDesign.exe5.65%
- AfterFX.exe2.11%
Top Children
- CEPHtmlEngine.exe96.42%
- WerFault.exe3.56%
- notepad.exe0.02%
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.