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DesktopShellExt.dll

DesktopHost Extensions file version info

Library on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it

Is it the real DesktopShellExt.dll?

file version info and known copies

Installed inC:\Windows\system32\

Signed byMicrosoft Windows

ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation

DescriptionDesktopHost Extensions

1 known copy

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

9efaff0fade6dcc48f439328cd8d196907fe3c905f1ff5386d3effbaa479cd3b

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