Update.exe
Summary
Generic update executable - handles application updates, commonly used by Squirrel (Electron app updater) and other frameworks.
Update.exe is the 410th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 17,869 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Users\... and it is most often launched by Teams.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Users\...95.89%
- C:\...0.91%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Monitoring Agent\patchman\110.82%
- C:\Windows\LTSvc\_LTUPDATE0.74%
- C:\ProgramData\...0.57%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\FMAuditOnsite0.37%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\Update0.37%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Monitoring Agent\patchman0.31%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 2d6bfce0ef7e0fce225c45392d527b2cdfd55ce4530d9867896c5828309c2e0b14.97%
- 0ac7d42023d59691fc06b08dec5da6ecf2755542ad5fe05ca42fd1c3cf28627010.55%
- e9b493b0ad904368d4252980f2524f823d99b330b0521180ca77e8f30a1ac6007.11%
- 9b2de7e18319bc24ffadac02e1a1adc82571be94b4c63b075435868f232e27245.71%
- e8bf1ab3f7b65e9e801302d0d7e8e9a5f5f001f60f240d9a1ce3b1df390de2ca5.59%
- a69677e93f60c92be514d2a78696b13e0b5eaeb31be8362f9d458dd1a72b5b185.39%
- b393b6d5dd4c62facda964f68ef3b36dcce880584662482d6e24ba329c99953a4.77%
- c743333515342f8b88d795101fe3512fca8bf3d40dec550500ffe5afb421c9dd4.56%
- 11e3888f2681a09bbf6e87fff5f19fb6c2b7d5ec74c2dd536b680743f78ad8ac4.2%
- 2d0c3c3a07d8780a9e2895a7da7725f50f8d32e66885a524e20873ae0afa8edf2.83%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- Update.exe76.28%
- userinit.exe17.39%
- services.exe2.53%
- explorer.exe1.75%
- slack.exe0.61%
- Discord.exe0.58%
- atom.exe0.15%
- chrome.exe0.15%
- svchost.exe0.08%
Top Parents
- Teams.exe21.61%
- RingCentral Classic.exe19.76%
- Discord.exe19.18%
- explorer.exe16.33%
- RingCentral.exe10.66%
- Yammer.exe5.62%
- slack.exe2.63%
- LTSVC.exe1.6%
- runonce.exe0.75%
Top Children
- Teams.exe38.12%
- net1.exe8.94%
- net.exe8.94%
- schtasks.exe7.06%
- regsvr32.exe6.1%
- Discord.exe4.55%
- TeamViewer.exe4.44%
- Squirrel.exe3.7%
- conhost.exe2.23%
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.