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DevicePairing.dll

Shell extensions for Device Pairing file version info

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

Is it the real DevicePairing.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionShell extensions for Device Pairing

2 known copies

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

a1da333fe0696939837f82f902f54e94f8bff8296039f2461644e1aafe87b485

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

fc8e3a0d28c61dd4ba5b81a9a2fc05b0dcf65148dced315007bf4a8eecadeef8

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