sparkle.exe

Summary

GNU Image Manipulation Program Plug-In

sparkle.exe is the 6784th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 7 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins and it is most often launched by gimp-2.8.exe.

6784th
most commonly executed Windows program
7
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins71.43%
  • C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\sparkle14.29%
  • C:\Users\...14.29%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 21e796161a49b6dcdabb5e86906d69eb34f61bcb43e9722e815b3c491be4384028.57%
  • a964f20f50e75e92cbf3b678cc20deabbe4eb99f6a6c6e32cfe3ce2ed34ec92e28.57%
  • 00b1dd04313417dfc7a27ae659c8b850e5173c029fde3587be284116d4d315f514.29%
  • b427834ff282a56f644a3336401af8880991060076ea020f4d238aa40e20478714.29%
  • baa0f879975f38d917e0b75e1ce01f46100c5531cfd41d6ced003d603425ca4514.29%

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.