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netapi32.dll

Net Win32 API DLL file version info

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

Is it the real netapi32.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionNet Win32 API DLL

2 known copies

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\netapi32.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

02fc3cf9ab7289b704bd04e3a896018e349c34fd90e1bde1fef6b4cda5f95c85

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\netapi32.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

306d22478bcdb5b936f02901a6deb4255beff425cd61ac310f4a755a7b96f7cc

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 netapi32.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.