Squirrel.exe
by Various
Installer
Summary
Squirrel update framework (used by Electron apps)
Squirrel.exe is the 2124th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 268 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Users\... and it is most often launched by Update.exe.
2124th
most commonly executed Windows program
268
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Users\...90.91%
- C:\ProgramData\...9.09%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 201ef301de7a935635354684f7e1907050e2b66de2297ffed8f63564d784dd636.65%
- 2d6bfce0ef7e0fce225c45392d527b2cdfd55ce4530d9867896c5828309c2e0b3.99%
- 3ac025dba338ddae4f74eeaef6d7ad0c941987f2cf5940369ba516a1c82fc6573.99%
- 52bdb3052f9960e8b68016c69f1cc98ff68afecd9b9430037e9a9db3b6ee89423.99%
- 87a5069a402d1927992ee9685b9eef09fc9dcd69e6fc0d5f8dc3011c9adfc58d3.99%
- 307a780f7ea5cebf7dab2c6848e9aba8fda8be4420b8e963af399296ae2b085d3.72%
- 01a5f019a0d150a6f8c51e4ef1d7aad1be4db6b2bdd9d4e97434c047b621cb143.19%
- e9b493b0ad904368d4252980f2524f823d99b330b0521180ca77e8f30a1ac6002.39%
- b5832bfd2441885e57766531042213205a3f18464d8f033e4e5c25581e4597c12.13%
- a69677e93f60c92be514d2a78696b13e0b5eaeb31be8362f9d458dd1a72b5b181.86%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- slack.exe63.87%
- Yammer.exe5.88%
- atom.exe1.68%
- RingCentral.exe1.68%
Top Parents
- Update.exe99.63%
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.