dpapi.dll
Data Protection API file version info
Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it
Is it the real dpapi.dll?
Installed in
C:\Windows\system32\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionData Protection API
2 known copies
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dpapi.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
3a9cfe948ebd9b4315b19b27cac1b93181a90cd992129dcb6ee32503f8bf57fa10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\dpapi.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
892d7846323ab7e9590b01c81e9ad037518122ef45d76f2ea94149b483ef92deFrom 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 names dpapi.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.