Illustrator.exe
Summary
Adobe Illustrator vector graphics editor
Illustrator.exe is the 1406th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 845 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2018\Support Files\Contents\Windows and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2018\Support Files\Contents\Windows58.7%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2017\Support Files\Contents\Windows18.22%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS6 (64 Bit)\Support Files\Contents\Windows15.98%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2019\Support Files\Contents\Windows6.98%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS6\Support Files\Contents\Windows0.12%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- d5c5a1f8eca669acf82b375e112e8eb49cd856e26dce567943ac5afecea13a0647.11%
- b2905460e0204e5ac47d6a51d9da29c5176daaa769742d8d88929d6e556d297f19.35%
- 0fbde2032ab8b82fd583d20ba37fdb9c894234e6043e7ba710cfdc2ad79e378416.33%
- 07f04ce87983e09750bfd6ac5f9cc85f31b3d35a9cc54a071ce23a48e2276acc13.32%
- 1e397435c71cc4245dffe998aa9558788f7adf81ca08f3a20e786cda429f63f41.26%
- fdac5ad6e1d4e2353573862e219106cf29ffe0dead75454555e85be6b99c82611.01%
- 1851464b1ed262d9bd772b5bec0b5af86af52cc237a63f00d97c1b5ed0b848380.5%
- 1bb961d204b0a5dabef5672c4c4eecdea94e03bcd58d271c648d5dc8017c8af20.38%
- 86e88eb641714770b77f5d33558c514fb6e7385b82a5fe40147b9e1c2fc0a56f0.38%
- ba431318083333417f106c8bbb711f3df7384999f6a137188c920e4a3dd3511f0.38%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe81.62%
- explorer.exe8.87%
- svchost.exe3.33%
- winlogon.exe1.11%
- chrome.exe0.95%
- WerFault.exe0.95%
- Creative Cloud.exe0.79%
- adobe_licutil.exe0.48%
- CCLibrary.exe0.48%
- DWWIN.EXE0.16%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe87.57%
- 7zFM.exe3.08%
- InDesign.exe2.25%
- OUTLOOK.EXE2.25%
- chrome.exe1.42%
- OpenWith.exe1.42%
- node.exe0.36%
- svchost.exe0.36%
- Illustrator.exe0.12%
Top Children
- CEPHtmlEngine.exe48.6%
- LogTransport2.exe13.69%
- adobe_licutil.exe10.88%
- CPC10Q.EXE0.55%
- AdobeIPCBroker.exe0.39%
- chrome.exe0.35%
- Acrobat.exe0.27%
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.