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dot3api.dll

802.3 Autoconfiguration API file version info

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

Is it the real dot3api.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
Description802.3 Autoconfiguration API

2 known copies

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dot3api.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

1570175ce145a279aecb766f76630de0570257f175dbef564a9890469e2fe394

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\dot3api.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

5dd6b0863546ce7cfa2280cdca2fcbb84b678e6bcdea8755a54d0b56ea43ad51

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 dot3api.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.