PDQDeployRunner-1.exe
Summary
PDQ Deploy Runner - executes software deployment packages pushed by PDQ Deploy.
PDQDeployRunner-1.exe is the 943rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 2,415 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\AdminArsenal\PDQDeployRunner\service-1 and it is most often launched by services.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\AdminArsenal\PDQDeployRunner\service-1100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- cdaa1c82ffebfe40ae81dff913f047269db09d1654f758223babb84cb9a27e7c47.16%
- 7ccfaffb7b7edcb5f01c898683b83390e1bbeef4a6fda504a2606eb0a01a2ff231.64%
- f6d094f1eec7f4e959c0a0ac6c7eb2aeda87ef845703285260e43287c9cc5f9821.2%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- cmd.exe57.94%
- msiexec.exe34.91%
- unins000.exe2.06%
- setup.exe1.7%
- wusa.exe0.36%
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.