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certcli.dll

Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services Client file version info

Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it

Is it the real certcli.dll?

file version info and known copies
Original nameCertCli in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionMicrosoft Active Directory Certificate Services Client

2 known copies

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\certcli.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

dd9dc90d001366564fee9aece13a2643ce6dc20148b2567c03f0c434147c274b

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

e4e06d1a20ae0ad8c02ba6cf1d55b86aba1037d8dde21cc7e9d7eba18be4cf25

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.

What detects it

Sigma

Sigma names certcli.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.