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efsadu.dll

File Encryption Utility file version info

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

Is it the real efsadu.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionFile Encryption Utility

2 known copies

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

5ec6aaed85afad68619825e9c19abe39fa852227b2e06b853d86ebadfc513c96

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

94d7dbe0e024e9e76b85a3d0e6b089dfcaf82d33334d6ea39ecceec9afa84696

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