adminhelper.exe
By AT&T Services (Signed)
| MD5: | bfc64c0c3bde279b95ec43474b70f989 |
| SHA1: | 021ca042ca09ce1a17d3ad23e7686d484dac0c6e |
| SHA256: | 2406de6b396be3e7f9ad93ad615c419c22aae4063a9c138d80873fb862c9397c |
Overview
adminhelper.exe runs as a service under the name AdminHelper.exe with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). This is typically installed with the program AT&T Communication Manager published by AT&T Inc.. The file is digitally signed by AT&T Services which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | adminhelper.exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\at&t\at&t communication manager\adminhelper.exe |
| Size: | 55.04 KB (56,360 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | AT&T Services |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, September 7, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, September 7, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
“Tired of searching for a Wi-Fi connection? Instead, use the AT&T mobile broadband network to connect to the Internet. AT&T Communication Manager (ACM) is a software application that works with your AT&T mobile broadband device to provide high-speed, wireless Internet connectivity so you can stay in touch. ACM displays your data usage in real time. Easily track and manage your data usage—so you know how much data is available to use to d...”
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00325359% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00286239% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00039120% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 194 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 548,139/sec | |
| Context switches: | 4/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.88 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 6 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.79 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.88 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 57.8 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 60.56 MB | |
| Working set: | 5.16 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 6.14 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,768/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 10 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 384 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 287/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 9 | |
| Handles: | 154 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\at&t\at&t communication manager\adminhelper.exe" /run |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | AdminHelper.exe |
| Description: | “AT&T Communication Manager dependency. Needed by Mobile HotSpot feature.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00504751% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00504751% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 58,600/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| AdminHelper.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00177412% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00141572% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00035840% | |
| CPU cycles: | 229,919/sec | |
| Memory: | 60 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
55.56% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
22.22% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
22.22% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 77.78% of adminhelper.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Intel |
57.14% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
28.57% |
|
| Toshiba |
14.29% |
|
