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deviceassociation.dll

Device Association Client DLL file version info

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

Is it the real deviceassociation.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionDevice Association Client DLL

2 known copies

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

04dd0085869b03c5165e9a744d950587649f6b8990ebccb6bac3bdfded0276f6

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

d270dc35ef9cecdda7ab5e97b43e31d86e009067be86d2f8a2aaf27648813f71

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