gzip.exe
by GNU
Application
Summary
GNU Gzip compression/decompression
gzip.exe is the 1717th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 477 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by sh.exe.
1717th
most commonly executed Windows program
477
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 0bf19ac24f15a5f11bc9a99336a736c11f63261ae1809e7663c37cc3fa144880100%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- bash.exe0.26%
Top Parents
- sh.exe44.65%
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.