updaterstartuputility.exe
Summary
Updater Startup Utility - manages auto-updater startup registration.
updaterstartuputility.exe is the 685th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 5,787 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\UWA and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\UWA100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 8566f0549fb35261dbda9f526ef86320bb3723c31de075af3882b21be15e109151.38%
- c7c552d13ed12b4165fde45f69e170d4f18b746d84b3b08e7254aaf8d9671d0c33.61%
- 70cda6ae7ff4fd08fad931477c524957952edc89985696fd988b9786a349c56512.27%
- 4c3a1030954cc8e3dcfdae7df37ec2b4604974edde4b954a66f87bb987999ad41.81%
- 1d2b0914412378e0b5834a95bdd86f8927b6a8d37f4e044c904ce381f1c19a750.68%
- 7949ccc9c634b9a04b941db870a8e2f2b193028b4f7d54488ad302c35db18faa0.26%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe58.01%
- services.exe41.96%
- winlogon.exe0.03%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe58.82%
- svchost.exe41.18%
Top Children
- AAM Updates Notifier.exe73.48%
- AdobeGCClient.exe26.52%
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.