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fwcfg.dll

Windows Defender Firewall Configuration Helper file version info

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

Is it the real fwcfg.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 Configuration Helper

2 known copies

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

cf0c59bea748afb4023b7445e9b4517d463c1bbe1fd5b8ef25729acc4bdadf12

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

f99334acaf57065c6dd0951ab8ce90cf350b33a0a85f8cb6f348c552953d60f8

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