notification_helper.exe
Summary
Browser Notification Helper - handles desktop notification delivery for web browsers.
notification_helper.exe is the 581st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 8,387 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\74.0.3729.169 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\74.0.3729.1693.17%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\79.0.3945.1302.73%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\75.0.3770.1002.6%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\73.0.3683.1032.53%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\87.0.4280.882.48%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\80.0.3987.1492.4%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\83.0.4103.1162.38%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\81.0.4044.1382.23%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\76.0.3809.1002.02%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\77.0.3865.902.02%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1ba6174e9833778283cb1cc3a6309e915b364ce2aa3217d9a0bc38aff51ca9a23.04%
- 04d6a798e190a9f9765a4b21be78a82ba79649331a2b18f743eef2202592c2092.9%
- bc389dafa0b9561a51f3ab2fcab5c72e0992f02213ae18952ec5b3dc940bf4db2.77%
- 8ce00e27cc43b7fbb19fcf0bc5f2c921e3618d5e80e28b36cc6473f9bb42a1a52.67%
- 4e7b433b320febb148a7b835121edcfb0c1d1e087f4487ec44aaf0989d686c222.66%
- 7ed6fd08863632949b6ee7b067cda2444ecfc2369cf6757e42f81688a2efb2e62.49%
- 4f14abe126982d4064cf047e7870037e74eee6d9c6afdccdbac9723fa50d6f422.25%
- d32441163d70a2e231b395b73ed19fd0ca1918e849b9097b40f20d800b64f7592.25%
- 84442d9b0084729d8d29c1229d32480ae1678a772bce95c0ccf472db3e1f89a42.22%
- b671859785c6b3a7c58930c4fddd6f27d0e77121bfdaceb789219ef1a84cf1432.17%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- chrome.exe93.03%
- msedge.exe6.38%
- brave.exe0.59%
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.