pnpupdate.exe

by Various
Driver/Hardware

Summary

PnP Update - Plug and Play device update handler.

pnpupdate.exe is the 987th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 2,143 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\Temp\... and it is most often launched by invcol.exe.

987th
most commonly executed Windows program
2,143
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Windows\Temp\...99.72%
  • C:\Temp\...0.23%
  • C:\Users\...0.05%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 97a8ce5eb288a43fbfe255e8f26f8a7edb074c48c40fb00735731705066de3a79.66%
  • c8f12506a472787a0842a7c318e6d53acd915e27320edd89558dd03f5d40fd5a9.17%
  • 6e82b8d93e8ec5f6d1144809c6e7cd403e8a5fe22c2790bb6a7a203ba340a8448.14%
  • fb0591f86595b967a46439745a3d32b5bf1e367c9875338c7330910d232c382d3.58%
  • 7d9292164bf8fb5b6c84dae6e5dd0534055918b0f3dfb25f0baea3ff81290dc63.38%
  • 55b418dc507bcd66bd589e1b758ff6e25ec5fe87538928c9d3a3657517e5daf53.09%
  • cc3a1bd96ab6de246a3eadeb8d8147282576104513bde016287bc1322c2cf1bf2.7%
  • c3f94598f4db3e7ca40b8742b14f0fea121215b95b2aa4c6188808bb814b84da2.65%
  • ef54253749cd97f887026d2ae1fdc9faf3b723d03b2eee1d4a23fa0d8906b9c32.4%
  • 895866f039078239b3b0ecc9222f9e26622d2dc3ce988109acbc3cf1e3f6fba32.35%

Process Ancestry

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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.