FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe
Summary
Adobe Flash Player ActiveX Utility - legacy Flash Player update helper for Internet Explorer.
FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe is the 596th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 7,934 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 25ff1e7926971d8b5349f3a6f277b312137a2384c20915ff544992500e790e1310.01%
- 9c4ec150852acfafc3e39f2319460163e173caa176e8852b2e644db6656e70909.76%
- d6b86f6f70ad8da5daecbf72f2565eccce6786e594b07e9620765fc9ec0808c59.74%
- 7734429fc62512c8686ff680b579fd32018648ff9a5142ccddc7d2dbf6648f129.53%
- 38235166bfe0a86257c81b956b9ca378deba0c64c19f842f8be613fc410ff1228.61%
- 58eda5a866e0ce07734f54afd31fd7d36816f2ffc4f7fcd34e00da3ea38a32f27.02%
- 11fa87fc1f570713a6fe3f79ee32e096a2cb6766663372ff5c9b01f6c3344f0e6.87%
- cfa39f0870b93439b7aa51a48d8a102830e260d70c750dc21f6378c3efc07a164.87%
- 244c8224805e1cffc22fb40ec06be1e0bea974aebc8ef73cff618a796dd346de4.17%
- 7bcefa2c2f6429b48f33411269dbe725d36b606ed3cc29720736b642af2431943.47%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
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.