KACT2.EXE
Summary
KACT/KACE Agent - Quest KACE Systems Management agent for endpoint inventory and management.
KACT2.EXE is the 535th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 10,080 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\x64\3 and it is most often launched by printisolationhost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\x64\3100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 38e9dfde678577f83495019de63ac2baef0a17d6ade236161a15e2796554196485.02%
- dd25a7ed3ab35a35e40921138033f594cebff389c6133e798452ffcfd065dd4514.98%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe52.59%
- services.exe47.41%
Top Parents
- printisolationhost.exe96.56%
- spoolsv.exe3.44%
Top Children
- conhost.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.