NisSrv.exe
Microsoft Network Realtime Inspection Service file version info
Program on Windows 9 known copies with hashes 3 Sigma rules name it
Is it the real NisSrv.exe?
C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\4.18.2001.10-0\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\platform\4.18.2003.8-0\9 known copies
4.18.2009.7 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\4.18.2009.7-0\NisSrv.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows Publisher
5b33bb9040f40e2d5022e37f725471f39f14dd4a63ee945537bc0b899b583ce54.18.2008.9 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\4.18.2008.9-0\NisSrv.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows Publisher
7771f332ffb71b2c9668de3c5aa14617e26d00a21c931deb2dce0776ca3ee02a4.18.2007.8 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\4.18.2007.8-0\NisSrv.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows Publisher
3ab68ddd04335ed4f5a69ec3adb56cc80e2f2ab849394c07a21d66bdcbd67ff54.18.2006.10 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\4.18.2006.10-0\NisSrv.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows Publisher
2c46ef7000a25019beb431dc24dceb95eb0d7e76927f5efdcaff6eaf65e47e0d4.18.2005.5 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\4.18.2005.5-0\NisSrv.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows Publisher
e64cdb010582a84a9a62be84fc0a103ae3d5463474fa82735c69e052a5816a844.18.2004.6 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\4.18.2004.6-0\NisSrv.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows Publisher
c0327f8a52a181d3efdb773d045e460e09d1ce32ef41f5b49e726a8151037d254.18.2003.8 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\platform\4.18.2003.8-0\NisSrv.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows Publisher
80b5d7927e0983c81ae45b41883e4a3ce4af78ab676f4443007c5818b19b2e644.18.2001.10 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\4.18.2001.10-0\NisSrv.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows Publisher
a9c1546530183f9af38f38adaa531df514e1e35eb62fc289d7f7af27551d19794.18.1807.16384 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\NisSrv.exe · signed by Microsoft Windows
1fe1f4b5a65aedbbd3676959e5b10d744faba59727f6f58dc141b5211f1f6974From 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 names NisSrv.exe in 3 rules in all, for every kind of event; this is the process creation rule CmdID evaluates.