FortiScand.exe

by Fortinet

Endpoint Security

Summary

FortiClient vulnerability scanner daemon - performs endpoint vulnerability assessments as part of the FortiClient security suite.

FortiScand.exe is the 319th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 28,970 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Fortinet\FortiClient and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.

319th

most commonly executed Windows program

28,970

observed executions

medium

statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

C:\Program Files (x86)\Fortinet\FortiClient99.82%
C:\Program Files\Fortinet\FortiClient0.18%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

cc0c7caa93c5b95bece20ec02cb46cf07647a0a277b2fd502b93e669d36707a146.79%
66f5e420cd9cf1b1e615ba5a63a2e80d4a0fb9f133f0a6fd5d5e8ac280b90de016.73%
8d19449242da3628bd260baef12936cee1f8aa52cbf3e9a5955dd24c5e0cc87a14.28%
d88e12b7cf859c776c159c3eb605c94498b8205a5b6eac22d5b180fddbbf2c9912.27%
a499353398df0d7fd29a312ac8865581b28aab4631207f4b8591945ddcea97ae6.79%
e356fdefe8277b8407a0a3cb629e8d2fde2ac7cfd2e0952fa409d9d8344bc78b1.21%
327f4548cf1f7d8f9a12c0bf60d05df2e7be55542aa95d3c0c87b2f2ea6617ef0.59%
e7ce921c99cc0dcdea75db031b3714e29af7fb6d7a20f8daad4b62be4820c19d0.36%
85e14824dd1fad2a425df2849203a7d4b2f056efd3f60e7aaaee551078259f0d0.34%
9e4888dfaaca52784d0682113cbc4696d0b045105d750ffbabe058f235dcdd270.18%

Process Ancestry

Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.

Security Analysis

What does FortiScand.exe normally do?

Scans endpoints for known vulnerabilities as part of FortiClient endpoint protection and compliance checking.

When is FortiScand.exe suspicious?

Running on systems without FortiClient installed.

False positive notes

Normal FortiClient vulnerability scanning.

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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.