setup.exe
by Various
Installer
Summary
Generic setup executable - common name for software installation programs across many vendors.
setup.exe is the 285th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 38,490 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\Temp\... and it is most often launched by setup.exe.
285th
most commonly executed Windows program
38,490
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\Temp\...17.85%
- C:\Users\...2.18%
- C:\...1.19%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\66.0.3359.139\Installer1.11%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\65.0.3325.181\Installer1.02%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\66.0.3359.181\Installer1%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\64.0.3282.186\Installer0.94%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\64.0.3282.167\Installer0.52%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\67.0.3396.87\Installer0.47%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\64.0.3282.140\Installer0.41%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 324c211392c9508d9d8e5ffd1665ef6cb572c014c537b078c3bef2f5894ac2661.75%
- cd868b9ef21df50a5b9547c77ae64faec819f6d7184dc802ee097245c92bd88e1.69%
- 159ef7c593f56adcd04436c95f068b2f8fbbf0f5b7133f6b61768ec2fbe319ab1.68%
- 102a9ddda37de78bd4732c49d796e30959b468cfbfa469e753bd394f40c5547b1.53%
- 9622313cf4884cd11143ce82e26521910833972d438ecc94e9fbafe6e3077cb10.84%
- a3edf6596c749072f10741dcf2a642e7fd099dd3e196e10bfa519b73501447770.83%
- 4b3fdc67790a96248c86d95f066db5f82884abb8ac952c34cafebe882caca7d70.65%
- ed62c2ae7dd83a389ee7fead07f344f0ac693fdc40ff4a05fa28571509b433d90.48%
- b1f00d88fe968a0001116083f9b3a5c5094443f8a742d716ea37f23d70928ab10.47%
- 0252c32a930c7c19bf0c5f81881d504b986035573ce8af461cb5e76f28f757f60.47%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- GoogleUpdate.exe44.58%
- setup.exe8.44%
- services.exe6.38%
- userinit.exe1.33%
- Windows10Upgrade.exe1.06%
- svchost.exe0.68%
- explorer.exe0.64%
Top Parents
- setup.exe59.03%
- GoogleUpdate.exe4.58%
- explorer.exe0.91%
- Adobe Installer.exe0.38%
- runonce.exe0.29%
- chrome_installer.exe0.25%
- msedge.exe0.16%
- powershell.exe0.15%
Top Children
- setup.exe90.33%
- wevtutil.exe5.26%
- msedge.exe0.77%
- wermgr.exe0.31%
- rundll32.exe0.24%
- regsvr32.exe0.21%
- TokenResolverx64.exe0.19%
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.