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FirewallAPI.dll

Windows Defender Firewall API file version info

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

Is it the real FirewallAPI.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionWindows Defender Firewall API

2 known copies

10.0.19041.488 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\FirewallAPI.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

67cd9c7f5ab8855e1f39aea3c663235bd7ef9f155184eb28fdd0783d53d9f91b

10.0.19041.329 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\FirewallAPI.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

d4dd047f970cd6bde2a789c69e0e87ef700c9a11c89763413e7013821fee84ed

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