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newdev.dll

Add Hardware Device Library file version info

Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 3 Sigma rules name it

Is it the real newdev.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionAdd Hardware Device Library

2 known copies

6.0.5054.0 · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\newdev.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

0bd56952f56c90d4bf5c461dc1e378fcf6bd196611baf334ba6539a6863a1415

6.0.5054.0 · C:\Windows\system32\newdev.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

3a72c7e2a6be86951e35cd27cab87d16195f86685b2489330c3b1632dea116fe

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 newdev.dll in 3 rules, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.