activeds.dll
ADs Router Layer DLL file version info
Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it
Is it the real activeds.dll?
Original name
ADs in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries itInstalled in
C:\Windows\system32\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionADs Router Layer DLL
2 known copies
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\activeds.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
67e98c5d16548a5cc7131724329c213e607d62530a41e8556de4fb2c7940981f10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\activeds.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
78fb0ac33f7ead29f16ec1b9a0b44843962722346bb9a938434950c69dc15468From the file’s version info and the copies recorded by xCyclopedia (MIT). A copy in another folder, signed by someone else or with another hash is not necessarily malicious, but it is worth a closer look. In Ceplin, "<sha256>".whatis() says which known copy a hash is.
What detects it
Sigma names activeds.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.