pingsender.exe
by Mozilla
Web Browser
Summary
Firefox Ping Sender - sends telemetry pings for Mozilla Firefox on shutdown.
pingsender.exe is the 561st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 8,898 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox and it is most often launched by firefox.exe.
561st
most commonly executed Windows program
8,898
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox57.2%
- C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox37.33%
- C:\Users\...5.46%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- ec979a0c49a3f4c9a2d2110c393c834c7f4f9c1f9726ba38ead921de4b8d2a708.77%
- dbfeaa6b4abaf77d703fab46d35fe006fe0d79aca1fc43ff1629552bfd65a50e7.97%
- 4b7580b087c55ff2456f1d5defd2c32e359ce17cea26c16fbfa47975da45b8a87.45%
- 8d7a5e4a1054dab42d289164c34bd82c6f7b2f4338e501daa55b503c491ebf545.31%
- 507e93f60ed826dec82cc07bf774d8760285c382ea57a35441d2089cfc8aab053.3%
- 1442fd944881106a63fff845b7a4e9a4261cc4cc01265fb1c3b6fcc8cf10b2a93.21%
- d56caefa7e830d8a57f83e369537b3117721879f4099c36c7f546f84559ae1743.18%
- 2af05b569ecbc573bd24c2ea0180bfb6ab4623a482b705a0bee38de573fc30872.64%
- b9b3f2022d2c4ec0476b03f94416a5f137e2f10f0dacabf8881dbeaf2e4bb6b62.61%
- 2ca05a27db9b5b31282753770cc17a73334fd4979d815aef8e652647d39229c22.48%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe74.63%
- KeePass.exe8.6%
- updater.exe7.7%
- OUTLOOK.EXE6.23%
- firefox.exe0.65%
- setup-stub.exe0.44%
- RuntimeBroker.exe0.23%
- WINWORD.EXE0.15%
- lync.exe0.13%
- OpenWith.exe0.12%
Top Parents
- firefox.exe90.6%
Top Children
- conhost.exe99.94%
- ngen.exe0.03%
- mscorsvw.exe0.02%
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.