iTunesHelper.exe
by Apple
Application Support
Summary
iTunes Helper - launches iTunes when iOS devices are connected via USB.
iTunesHelper.exe is the 1027th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,913 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\iTunes and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
1027th
most commonly executed Windows program
1,913
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\iTunes100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1b40233357a2ab589c82ad99369411004c899debffcb0a3f399fd5cf12f1cd6b24.95%
- 1a51efe0a713d804226811ebcde1869628c350627f2a827db670bb66219f86c920.6%
- 44d73e059f53bfc65099a9471efbd063e915d547f06bd1b74ca7cf29fda71dfa11.76%
- 774bb9c26bfdf8d6a89fc4c4255dc8462fb5dfb2c7999619596bc45c23ad18a56.2%
- ff4d198d412ca21c49e0a3e6fe52ead69786b305429095b5bd25cb4fafd33b515.24%
- 7ee4af6eb85db71658a7408ddf97e3bebc5017df8960f0f7267956360d7d70165.14%
- 9889ffc1af4f5e3645620bf5f5f07184aa0c9a7926a68f22f1ba63a2234de5384.45%
- 6d44926d9b69d7f763f9b4d2e0dc14e9882605434796b44e2cb1f68a567eaee04.34%
- 7e3147b639e31b403c56dea747b7104afb3180a3b0803cc22d9e8a036cabbfc13.18%
- 56f62483c9d2235a10a425fad4d318a27493615d7692732f0490565c27356fc83.07%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe97.03%
- services.exe2.62%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe96.71%
- msiexec.exe3.29%
Top Children
- iTunes.exe100%
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.