wuaucltcore.exe

by Microsoft
Operating System

Summary

Windows Update Auto Update Client core process

wuaucltcore.exe is the 1975th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 318 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\UUS\amd64 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.

1975th
most commonly executed Windows program
318
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Windows\UUS\amd6478.3%
  • C:\Windows\UUS\Packages\Preview\amd6421.7%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 5be1db77831c63083e21c81f3a94307e0a6b5522602af89d4d7f64893420db1027.99%
  • 24e387c973b9b93e287a0655d9e02c57979b22240522562ea5327140422fc93626.73%
  • a40c69327684b7d1a4922e88a4017651fa7ae11d49b3f653d95b2a4e91fbf39b13.84%
  • c7051099d05639ca7aef041f4472628499d2924a41911c43d7396f9784b8a2cd13.84%
  • 26626c962f11296b599166c0ba57ce0919909c316531425a542874838516392d9.75%
  • ebf254b4693a434352fd007f0c8500bc23289359d33636ac63685571682668667.86%

Process Ancestry

Top Parents

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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.