CyOptics.exe
Summary
CylanceOPTICS - EDR component of Cylance that provides detection and response capabilities beyond prevention.
CyOptics.exe is the 1052nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,801 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Cylance\Optics and it is most often launched by services.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Cylance\Optics99.94%
- C:\Users\...0.06%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 3af3c65b2770471cade1fd465ba04915f51296a0e5545606c9e4ff18ec37630231.14%
- 63816ef9f9e7b3f819673132f14e3a04166fe64a5096a75346d026ceadcc9a9830.28%
- 9b521d951ef364337e3f1baf488668db162e19123fcc228e444034a11ffd0a4a17.3%
- 7a4e1f1eb6a63c9c373d96a1559c0c2b725d5681701aec35d1533e61a9ad416a6.34%
- a873d5606f032f618a1ba5811c76553b4fc1977c267df390b5298204d08fc2bc3.46%
- 7a564af3af9ae9a85ed5217f65fb2027c3762be1b8a0ec5faa86f3efe7ff09312.31%
- 10886ed7c4d27f0fed594ceb6455c6164df7f3d5ec18bcbd02b7aeef6598dbe01.79%
- 173208a47bec520c9b51d42d72678d23e317a2b8179711e487300ae1e63c9e521.61%
- 2f90e1a38bb72a4df4a76bebabef6787afe25650566869c89ae96aeb273e1fff1.15%
- f02ffe2536ad72105f9c8f09072cf2f3a68af36db35ab9998ab02ba59b6a574c0.92%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe99.26%
- msiexec.exe0.68%
- explorer.exe0.06%
Top Parents
- services.exe99.33%
- msiexec.exe0.61%
- cmd.exe0.06%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe71.43%
- conhost.exe25.71%
- regsvr32.exe2.86%
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.