mcupdutl.exe
by McAfee/Trellix
Endpoint Security
Summary
McAfee Update Utility - handles McAfee signature and engine updates.
mcupdutl.exe is the 1243rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,173 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by mcupdate.exe.
1243rd
most commonly executed Windows program
1,173
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...24.43%
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\mcafee\updmgr\7.2.142.110.69%
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\UPDMGR\6.8.120.19.75%
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\UPDMGR\7.4.135.16.96%
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\UPDMGR\7.0.131.15.85%
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\UPDMGR\7.1.144.15.68%
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\UPDMGR\6.9.161.15%
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\UPDMGR\7.8.111.14.07%
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\UPDMGR\7.6.148.13.9%
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\UPDMGR\7.3.166.23.22%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 3e02ba403df925db2fcb5f6919abeee54c04c69d42ac40957bd670086c3c53b926.86%
- 6be5266f4456a9374e3b76d0eda4c259954bf27896755d12835c91f499ddf3c912.05%
- c3b86dbdf202b1c0ac4622f34ed764b5f4cc427155a069e62eec3a0ebcda72717.84%
- 7ca31b4dd096e19aed6a63f0dd4335ea19cf605844a1e1c71eb9b904e0064ad86.6%
- dabb353116d1abf19a8a875f582077ce98a4a1e0149935fec48d1d0ee9bd25026.41%
- 422190717a9e86ad7881e81c5a80e896c8cad4aefe2ce043650b1e2c4f33ac484.59%
- 48767a0362ea6f4a6eedf9598f5942222a7e4bef643e831783877426b034a4ef4.4%
- 9c36bdedeffc3a1e2cd821b77a4a9b9efa4a7c64967519713dc9840ebcaf8d253.92%
- 6ed024cf0d25bd530d88d0af1cde4566671759f4e4aba69baa0f328013c819d33.63%
- f6d5b50b2a3792d379967c472d0dcc5d00ca8713dbe8f5ccd96224b2419b6e753.54%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe73.44%
Top Parents
- mcupdate.exe65.65%
- McTkSchedulerService.exe31.13%
- MCUPDA~1.EXE2.54%
- MfeAVSvc.exe0.25%
- McInst.exe0.17%
- mcupdatemgr.exe0.17%
- mchost.exe0.08%
Top Children
- McInst.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.