FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe
Summary
Adobe Flash Player Update Service. Legacy — Flash Player reached end-of-life in December 2020. Presence indicates an outdated/unpatched system.
FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe is the 89th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 286,753 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash and it is most often launched by services.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- c1bef41a1198587fb65ff88383db4e7629c33060db18aeb1fc74ed616934aa417.61%
- 8fc482c6444c904b5536979b3354597fd714634ec7372b464118c42aa9dcb58a6.42%
- 9c98c0e6a0e0bb46cbab253b4cf98a830d84a7ad1efa903206f8e1e8d21b08cc6.4%
- 146b98cc7b02765d50f1e2db76a578f7ed9f195fc0fa07e677c46a98bde18a426.22%
- 02c2df3b2e6d228c75fd96ca83ceb136b06a697c9f62e2f33a135a35ace8f6ab5.69%
- 1b987c8efd7dd6f5d1c69cb588ea3c027075cf8fe24e915c76f2ce554b9af9985.57%
- 956bd4afc4107165ba4b745ba1cb2044d5bbf853e62ba63bb6326037a42b58374.72%
- 5c00048d6ceffe40f06a4f0cc55f466f6aba06eb5e9bbf28f9c19e641abd40082.72%
- 16c36de7c48fc362f5f9de05b288a1058c6823eac1e9dd616556e3ad883728b82.33%
- 05f1b7291ebdd9ca1d74649c0dafcbe5f2cf93e92c5ca16a8ac10b6df83101a02.26%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe45.52%
- services.exe41.48%
- svchost.exe12.58%
- dllhost.exe<0.01%
- msiexec.exe<0.01%
Top Parents
- services.exe47.99%
- svchost.exe41.54%
- taskeng.exe10.24%
Top Children
- conhost.exe99.7%
- WSCClient.exe0.01%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
Security Analysis
What does FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe normally do?
Part of Adobe (legacy) software. Normal operation.
When is FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe suspicious?
Running from unexpected paths.
How do attackers abuse FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe?
Not commonly abused.
Detection guidance
No specific detection needed.
False positive notes
Normal Adobe (legacy) operation.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.