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fwbase.dll

Firewall Base DLL file version info

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

Is it the real fwbase.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionFirewall Base DLL

2 known copies

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

4e8cc1f18a2f40cf9aaa880b444a8c442e39d910d009a1bc490fee0fd588f381

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

260f936e72b47f8f677efced8d6dedb59ffe511bcab3fea8c35b6d623e5d2896

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