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netplwiz.dll

Map Network Drives/Network Places Wizard file version info

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

Is it the real netplwiz.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionMap Network Drives/Network Places Wizard

2 known copies

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

19f027160b4277f62e96f29ecd137d0012a0f8f27cb9e81201d1d3674f80a8c7

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

2482f86af9565551dfce8c20517fedd630b8c2fbc9d768c3681db7d0c81088c7

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