nlaapi.dll
Network Location Awareness 2 file version info
Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it
Is it the real nlaapi.dll?
Installed in
C:\Windows\system32\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionNetwork Location Awareness 2
2 known copies
10.0.19041.488 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\nlaapi.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
b66a05d8b4b5c4a1b3b5b9d8f16d398136c1d0b94387a1249f477904fc8fdc4310.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\nlaapi.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
00c2b55a91d4336611bdee1b3be1c8cc09a70737b2fa1ea91d03199dc19ef42fFrom 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 nlaapi.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.