steam.exe
by Valve
Gaming
Summary
Steam gaming platform client
steam.exe is the 1576th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 604 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
1576th
most commonly executed Windows program
604
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 216261378fe424ea072bac7b871774a36dd29fca5c8b860bcbf1d917573c9d5d22.85%
- c38e4da006945cc26c4e296f1d4fb89da5f2288813bcfa28498d31a4e3bc2df68.08%
- d656d280d783abb3e0e085ca97c1616407430b4816a8d7803fa94281195837247.21%
- e7534572f457c4a6aa5fc339a38a961d21c4e0717c3b8b2cd6feb04e076a0dd36.85%
- 5e42deba2b15b9f017cfdcaf378948321834b8f138f3c1a04b9c57f3d92ed9196.5%
- b618e248b9fb1eb6d48e90d149f16b5c3922a922e611cb903e36a5a45e928e695.1%
- f7c9277f6c3bb8b5f85cadcb64fa44442b4ca9001dc0c703c32593abc2ea9f554.92%
- c4a05899a80975c209dc6a160b8c89157df2ae49d0e428ae4fdf0ecd4471ac4a4.57%
- b3d0d8f32faaf036d470a51fae2d89d4fa24b67ceb480769fdfef8505e002a113.34%
- 59f44a8af735b4116fbf5795d5904bc60af5ad2b6510f7fdf7dd1c303bce9daa2.99%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe71.67%
- explorer.exe21.67%
- svchost.exe3.33%
- dllhost.exe1.67%
- steam.exe1.67%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe56.46%
- OVRServer_x64.exe13.58%
- steam.exe8.61%
- chrome.exe7.12%
- sihost.exe1.66%
- steamtours.exe0.66%
- vrserver.exe0.66%
- dllhost.exe0.33%
- SoTGame.exe0.33%
- rundll32.exe0.17%
Top Children
- GameOverlayUI.exe19.93%
- steamwebhelper.exe11.36%
- SoTGame.exe6.62%
- steam.exe2.4%
- steamservice.exe0.46%
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.