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IPHLPAPI.DLL

IP Helper API file version info

Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 3 Sigma rules name it

Is it the real IPHLPAPI.DLL?

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

2 known copies

10.0.19041.488 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\IPHLPAPI.DLL · signed by Microsoft Windows

75e67babf5102f94fe5f2ccdbefcb2d0b5889c7997f3a0516b8e97e9149573bf

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\IPHLPAPI.DLL · signed by Microsoft Windows

4ac5253ac203dc97f4dd0836e675871bc857d91c6944ada2868e701f3d94925b

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 IPHLPAPI.DLL in 3 rules, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.