nipalk.sys
NI-PAL Driver for Windows file version info
Driver on Windows LOLDrivers vulnerable driver
A known vulnerable driver
T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
2 known samples
25.8.0f138 · its entry
1a6b4d5ad40c9ddf2599f6a44e94a1336aa3d28bf6a220b775f5c3305faecb2d18.0.0f0 · its entry
d01c734b309a4ee5425afbb1a3181fcecffe5281dd6d654793a33394fd6b8e10From LOLDrivers (Apache 2.0). A driver is known by its hash: a sample under another name is the same driver. In Ceplin, "<sha256>".whatis() says which sample a hash is.
Is it the real nipalk.sys?
ProductNI-PAL, National Instruments Corporation
DescriptionNI-PAL Driver for Windows
From the file’s version info, as 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.