FortiElevate.exe

by Fortinet
Network Security

Summary

FortiClient elevation helper

FortiElevate.exe is the 1631st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 547 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Fortinet\FortiClient and it is most often launched by FortiClient.exe.

1631st
most commonly executed Windows program
547
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\Fortinet\FortiClient100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 92f0367177e25ce359245ddf860ad6e082779b35b4013e8f50e5edf18426d1b887.93%
  • 8e4fb61ab88c2d80f8338ec8bab21a998210a53593806162904bc306ffc5799e8.41%
  • 3932bf9f9d355d58ff4745baedea3743bdf04ceda14471a0660045e826a704f22.56%
  • fbc4017a758afad4e5cc2c102e9290f0463cc985ee37edd30aa9f53baa3331091.1%

Process Ancestry

Top Grandparents

Top Parents

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.