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mapistub.dll

Extended MAPI 1.0 for Windows NT file version info

Library on Windows 2 Sigma rules name it

Is it the real mapistub.dll?

file version info and known copies
Original nameMAPI32.DLL in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionExtended MAPI 1.0 for Windows NT

From the file’s version info, as 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.

What detects it

Sigma

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