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authentication.dll

Authentication file version info

Library on Windows 1 known copy with hashes

Is it the real authentication.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionAuthentication

1 known copy

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\authentication.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

d123ddba77cc0b84c355457d71edad5586783f62e87f016c1c002f5deeceb9d6

From 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.