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esent.dll

Extensible Storage Engine for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) file version info

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

Is it the real esent.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionExtensible Storage Engine for Microsoft(R) Windows(R)

2 known copies

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

64503774b6d868418d3a02aec8e3da54b57f9d48722369ce12a0c2dbfb097fdc

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

f52a4473331e4c884fe4e123918f9335f702c1bae741a2b93f4f32d911ff520d

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