helper.exe
by Various
Application Support
Summary
Helper - generic helper process used by various applications.
helper.exe is the 1185th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,382 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\uninstall and it is most often launched by updater.exe.
1185th
most commonly executed Windows program
1,382
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\uninstall53.26%
- C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\uninstall44.14%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\uninstall1.45%
- C:\Users\...0.94%
- C:\...0.22%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 73a6dd5ab7888fac3c627854412c2c2a90187bb15b1aa97600bb64c4f14e6a9f5.07%
- 4be4535f1cacd214a62c98a15a215d14423bcc1ef60ee771cccf4efc0b856ef84.77%
- 48cf7b17288a66e522aa4589db82ab73aec498f79de231633873fc43baa6b6f04.18%
- 2251742ababd92a3b89532f0db5f4a040397cef47018ceb21ee53e4963b432403.73%
- 621a4960ef8358c1045c5dcd61ddb47b4c45263557202275d74ccf2bc279fcfb3.5%
- 89807cba075acb727fa0b4106f4b8108e0912919dff6b9709b9d1fb4db955c532.91%
- 0d7c77ddeddaec60d5ab683603652d0c83a0eb6e850e889949accc64cdba99632.68%
- bcfeb7e987e6dec2fc708ca86a64fb365582b5546c334d3824bdd75582ec6d012.24%
- e36ff4df31266c4c81c67d0c3df7ad75b0487569a4c4660425318161f05fbbbc2.24%
- eff24c7c07b489c56574c72c4a923d57b6f971e6a49b6fe2f3c56c7a9425f6f32.16%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- firefox.exe48.25%
- maintenanceservice.exe47.23%
- explorer.exe1.62%
- updater.exe1.36%
- svchost.exe0.51%
- IronKey.exe0.26%
- setup-stub.exe0.26%
- rundll32.exe0.09%
Top Parents
- updater.exe96.45%
- firefox.exe2.68%
- cmd.exe0.36%
- dllhost.exe0.36%
- SystemSettings.exe0.14%
Top Children
- regsvr32.exe94.8%
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.