nessus-agent-module.exe
by Tenable
Endpoint Security
Summary
Tenable Nessus Agent vulnerability scanner module
nessus-agent-module.exe is the 2768th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 123 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Tenable\Nessus Agent and it is most often launched by powershell.exe.
2768th
most commonly executed Windows program
123
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Tenable\Nessus Agent96.75%
- C:\ProgramData\...3.25%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 3366eed05426cec8de6a5c639daa22d7e730c0b3be4a07b248933ac40b06475f47.15%
- 4a52262aeaa691018da5d74b96f243207c35295f4ad087b97aa592309f20a5c945.53%
- a7b4d6501040dc8f49f36a83a7811b5b347249e39de9b6542163a97be52957177.32%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- powershell.exe1.63%
Top Children
- conhost.exe70%
- cmd.exe15.29%
- openssl.exe1.18%
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.