MSPUB.EXE
by Microsoft
Productivity
Summary
Microsoft Publisher desktop publishing
MSPUB.EXE is the 2749th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 126 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16 and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
2749th
most commonly executed Windows program
126
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office1684.92%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office1614.29%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office160.79%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 03659208489322239b88668725d4b11223916d52f4e22276280e7b4dc12dc90910.83%
- 9e41cc475a4a0d19d5f6c5d5064fa83e597637a511d7bb201285e7ed5bda9fcf9.17%
- c35f8a4dce422313b3739ca84327088fd772b4d9e91e4362532e3f751e8ace635.83%
- b9e17d4aae7b1f91205981f866db6db9823fc166b27018d32fd23ff583d269ac5%
- be17c367cc72864b58204244d6767c317e34615803a5796df3d60f8781160ac35%
- 6e2954dd17b08a4b2e3577f9e52c3623cf89f08cefe2fc855216a25d2d34ba4d4.17%
- ff5f799b94789d88e6e06042178a965edb63996672e53e8991c9db82a97b949b4.17%
- 0c8bb7c80284604e54a868fb2e20e5866a83ee1c404967854b9f154c27f3a1e83.33%
- 17c6baf5414236a659ea161a0517dcf5135f725da152758afc320332dd745b4d3.33%
- 39cc44e0b0d0cdef4c014ba914a703408e4cbe5071fdffb36ff3b021d41ba4f83.33%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe72.41%
- explorer.exe21.84%
- OUTLOOK.EXE2.3%
- g2mlauncher.exe1.15%
- MSPUB.EXE1.15%
- updater.exe1.15%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe78.57%
- MSPUB.EXE11.11%
- OUTLOOK.EXE5.56%
- chrome.exe3.97%
- firefox.exe0.79%
Top Children
- splwow64.exe55.36%
- MSPUB.EXE23.21%
- CPC10Q.EXE10.71%
- FoxitPhantomPDF.exe8.93%
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.