FortiClient.exe
Summary
FortiClient VPN and Endpoint Security - Fortinet endpoint protection, VPN client, and vulnerability scanner.
FortiClient.exe is the 691st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 5,708 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Fortinet\FortiClient and it is most often launched by FortiTray.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Fortinet\FortiClient73.51%
- C:\Program Files\Fortinet\FortiClient26.47%
- C:\...0.02%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 5d8bdf462544397768833c51e7f3bffe1764f0ad7d913f7cf72266d6ceed0c7430.44%
- 29c55a70c49c10891d0ae49e151038174ed90260655288f02275df126c22756824.42%
- 0e27cf28f8595e3c7352db36662e2097fbe60d032f1c0e39147d65fb14efe37312.78%
- f973cb24fd087c7803ac263244f4865042c295e6685eedb5338b981b9433ae1d7.1%
- 6a5564f620e68cc7a2a5ce686adc596989df15465f52686153544629ba2cffb85.92%
- b2c19df04b4d3b3103c42144b99d12352f588a3a2ee2e7357ffc820c5bcfc5564.69%
- 76caea79bd3bb3bbe29f2dbfcd2cbbaaa20b60501f400fde460253866cfd43a74.52%
- 8bbaa66efb4ede580fbce37b3e2e80e828704cb711eea062238b77386d0ac07c2.94%
- 4df883d6c202a31a9b698a9b60da51554cac72b7b443b1fdc6ba223c1d14f3fe2.51%
- 7270ba5a38bdc04013e9e9e5cd018b76b70c68048c4b18cf3b7d3889194208211.12%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe38.83%
- FCHelper64.exe37.97%
- explorer.exe12.09%
- FortiTray.exe5.54%
- OneDrive.exe0.14%
- WerFault.exe0.14%
- svchost.exe0.12%
- GoogleUpdate.exe0.1%
- winlogon.exe0.1%
- msfeedssync.exe0.06%
Top Parents
- FortiTray.exe44.32%
- explorer.exe39.24%
- FortiClient.exe16.42%
- chrome.exe0.02%
Top Children
- FortiClient.exe41.6%
- FortiElevate.exe24.9%
- cmd.exe16.61%
- WMIC.exe16.38%
- WerFault.exe0.14%
- iexplore.exe0.05%
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.