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Package family name

The identifier of a packaged (Store/MSIX) app, such as Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe, which BAM uses as the value name instead of a path.

A package family name identifies a packaged Windows app: the package name followed by an underscore and a publisher ID hash, as in Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe (Microsoft Learn: package identity).

In BAM, packaged apps appear under this name instead of an NT device path, so there is no executable path to analyse. The BAM/DAM Parser shows the part before the underscore as the program, marks the row as an app, and skips path-based triage flags. More in BAM value data format.