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linkinfo.dll

Windows Volume Tracking file version info

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

Is it the real linkinfo.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionWindows Volume Tracking

2 known copies

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

18225826fdfff114830314978f208e200ce5dff93895fb9891e9625275bd9f0d

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

9f90247ec410802c2f0916cb2cd951759bb5c1f0b521edd76740a6a46fa4d2d1

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