Upgrade.exe
Summary
Generic upgrade executable - handles software version upgrades for various applications.
Upgrade.exe is the 256th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 49,073 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\VIPRE Business Agent\Definitions and it is most often launched by SBAMSvc.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\VIPRE Business Agent\Definitions99.8%
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\AV\McAfee VirusScan0.2%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- b363d311694227cd31fe38355ca4c2320eb45f2da264491e1b7e2a8acc01843865.28%
- 56af6ff0f56b9db28ee7df2c8dcfb41138816ad43089f2dbf901a099ce86f67234.44%
- 28457524f92ab4f8d67525f12af8195880ed38728a65d0bccbaacc1f7a0dc9940.04%
- 0dcdab3fdc1651aeb78b5c54a9f109fe907b1020ec5e1cabbe607ca0b90e6ef70.04%
- cf97f5bb5f07c2f018d54fa0d9e2ed9347e894c80ec4536bdfa2dc15012370970.03%
- 07dccf7dd60f2d47f7ec156ea80a26dce4d66de84d8e24ab6aaa7613f029e4d40.03%
- 868b46cb62804a7bdb6c4330faf8968a2d3ff89ac099b1cf1323ece9343ad04f0.02%
- d1a5e7559a90dc7fed19575dccb7e30dda621e209c3c4ac210f671ca8f82b0ac0.02%
- bfc0f7fc66cbafdb34551e4c4befd0fd5359b3010a08661ce597f13db57f8ca20.02%
- 33526f22c4a037c00a618d77e9d5f1ad33b4c8188d7830c36f24449f83748c0c0.01%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe68%
- MCUPDA~1.EXE10%
Top Parents
- SBAMSvc.exe69.81%
- Upgrade.exe29.99%
- svchost.exe0.16%
- McInst.exe0.04%
- taskhostw.exe0.01%
Top Children
- Upgrade.exe97.44%
- makecab.exe1.79%
- regsvr32.exe0.59%
- conhost.exe0.18%
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.