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KernelBase.dll

Windows NT BASE API Client DLL file version info

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

Is it the real KernelBase.dll?

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

2 known copies

10.0.19041.488 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\KernelBase.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

92ec87598325686fc3b9edfa8714a2996b6e147d830fa4fcac313fcd16b6873e

10.0.19041.388 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\KernelBase.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

d42c04dd7f8c78f7fd6e3508cada50c077b5485871adb76fcda98be46e0fc9ac

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 KernelBase.dll in 2 rules, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.