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kdstub.dll

Network Kernel Debug Extensibility Stubs file version info

Library on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it

Is it the real kdstub.dll?

file version info and known copies

Installed inC:\Windows\system32\

Signed byMicrosoft Windows

ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation

DescriptionNetwork Kernel Debug Extensibility Stubs

1 known copy

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

9c47b7674c60213fdca45f08622dbe1e626ebddc1425e1e87b9fc6cbfcc802c0

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