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msafd.dll

Microsoft Windows Sockets 2.0 Service Provider file version info

Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes

Is it the real msafd.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionMicrosoft Windows Sockets 2.0 Service Provider

2 known copies

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

b96adef36fafd1cf953d87777cfd4f63d23942e26a1441635d5f94e7b73a2850

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

c758a6a9448f739be478d3dbf1a84abf9ece53b94d5b82c68e8ea222ccf1892f

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.