PMESetup.exe

by Unknown (patch management)

System Utility

Summary

Patch Management Engine setup executable. Installs or updates a patch management agent component.

PMESetup.exe is the 160th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 104,543 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by winagent.exe.

160th

most commonly executed Windows program

104,543

observed executions

medium

statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

C:\...98.31%
C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Monitoring Agent\featureres1.54%
C:\ProgramData\...0.15%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

c12aa389e1af297fc1336b0770bd166edc69ebb41b32e0bed6a50910e95cc67399.85%
c6a51b12b459d1eb15ab076ae8e372b215d22989a4ba9ce87684c84b6479c3580.01%
0252ba867bd8990f0e07ebd0ec78d5638c8d765b5cf67b2bb4b34d5ca14b08ad0.01%
3cf8bdbfcdf2c94c9631fc7bd3d5fa04be1fa20ff1d17a3f1dcd7563f4dad80f0.01%
3f3af82d99ad1d37d076ecbe4c74a70bdd2db55585fbbac1c0cf46c900428ce20.01%
7d2c162f51117d04fc13e7629645b9563974d372161b6d6a3a3e9c47492f2f370.01%
994c5d6ca3fc121194c6afcfea4f43fa929d7b4e72d3206b7a9b3a4a18125c420.01%
bc0445089d7d9a2486f5b466e2f5bcae9ad4887d63cc8a8c05d71b16c64d925c0.01%
cef13f9e042f2e255ff9b56b4213c1151db64c12c55690df50e7d57b2b2f37c70.01%
e830e8852b7b4ab4ac5a9a83c0ebfb492e04a4fd7b28874b1f4896dd2ed5bfb30.01%

Process Ancestry

Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.

Security Analysis

What does PMESetup.exe normally do?

Part of Unknown (patch management) software.

When is PMESetup.exe suspicious?

Running from unexpected paths.

How do attackers abuse PMESetup.exe?

Not commonly abused.

Detection guidance

No specific detection needed.

False positive notes

Normal operation.

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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.