updateplatform.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Windows Update Platform delivery service
updateplatform.exe is the 1377th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 903 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\Install and it is most often launched by wuauclt.exe.
1377th
most commonly executed Windows program
903
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\Install99.89%
- C:\Windows\Temp\...0.11%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 3cfc6e930db5a981620238e1801756f93cd8be3fb9dc455c738d23e8ca2f83253.63%
- 79e0ab827f0f4cc312957321c8556facdaec8ccb2ec569835b06ce4d252a956f3.63%
- 8903da7a62351fa7e07247deafeb22c0627bdb66e109cfdd84d613ab9e955c833.54%
- e1666884c7e1dcf69dffbdf811ccdad295497b1d9c4b4c096ccd1ebab4b340893.46%
- 3bc7e14cc0bc8758824a02f6c5f5a0160a824fe279ddfdd20cfb6fbf55e997c72.78%
- 060ee6103be50c819d086760c74ee3f0257561fe3dfbb0d5f1ff35aacaeb849a2.53%
- 57bd19da0ce463099c76ddc24cd39169d22238fcce44e66b102d1fee8e3d625a2.53%
- 629a904cddb268b27d56317eae153cf83650b4012720060161a7e1d02415e0812.53%
- 64a99621a476fb3c20ebc4a0911e8a046f2eef5e8bb8486a86d72c1919e92bba2.53%
- db3a3866ca536af32221e194ea1b21c38628a3c7c433fc8bb8f2d3b701e279982.45%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Parents
- wuauclt.exe99.92%
- MpCmdRun.exe0.08%
Top Children
- MpSigStub.exe99.92%
- WerFault.exe0.08%
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.