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networkexplorer.dll

Network Explorer file version info

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

Is it the real networkexplorer.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionNetwork Explorer

2 known copies

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

be8fc055270fa6777fa397e9305589026d00609f14317354f476e00d4cee365f

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

eecce2d4c07d513d7d69176135c3defebb32ef3217df816349b41b8ac47ae255

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