EPUpdateService.exe
Summary
Endpoint Protection Update Service - handles signature and engine updates for endpoint protection.
EPUpdateService.exe is the 1320th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,006 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus Engine\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus and it is most often launched by services.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus Engine\Managed Antivirus\Managed Antivirus90.89%
- C:\Program Files\Bitdefender\Endpoint Security9.11%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- f3be5db20039d98eaf828df85302e47501672630addf9f3b78c9ed739b335ba314.19%
- 3d9aaac606eb0665d4dcc3be2ae264b5357c8470b910437b993c5a66b63c4a5513.3%
- 01c57d1529c9d529c08bb10a5b9296a03735be3c45320f2d65a35b0ddaab49fe12.74%
- 8cc3f46198464b4ec39d5d5ea5f2da6d7905d83ff73c4e8417b83065acb5ee2711.62%
- c8992e348a9e0aeda3256fe44e7a4fa74acb1b2ab505fbe2bdd56076c7cd3e1a6.15%
- 8f3c6e58c76b7581a0ea4cd0d4ef570a712d7006d66d3b55d9bd0403b2f05fde5.92%
- 2297b20bdc19ee5501d65b4eb6c12cb58dd5a69ab2c6f8736191c3ac8511a3314.92%
- 36e3117ef56c52fe66c0ebe7ea752e8b02aa8ee5eaa5cba6022df9694f58b7a84.25%
- 815365446c678c7f51306fcdd0e67c63e7a179054fefdce692a5e56aa84071933.91%
- 716665d598bf1db2e177b4618a03d04294ca29a758965e88f6b7ad69d4a157a53.46%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe93.1%
Top Parents
- services.exe81.29%
- installer.exe18.61%
Top Children
- downloader.exe70.15%
- installer.exe29.85%
- epsecurityservice.exe<0.01%
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.