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mscms.dll

Microsoft Color Matching System DLL file version info

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

Is it the real mscms.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionMicrosoft Color Matching System DLL

2 known copies

10.0.19041.264 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mscms.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

f794bcc49677ed55cb76953862c7c1e6674f739eb0288af9a77cee08cfe92d07

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

72b1ee45b39de4927157d3ffcf0b943db43667bf911a7aea1598b7fcf7a898d5

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