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nshipsec.dll

Net Shell IP Security helper DLL file version info

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

Is it the real nshipsec.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionNet Shell IP Security helper DLL

2 known copies

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

0b024b651d9d05bf0c7e80c42a710575bfd91618730fe3d0bfc2d2fb9d4b3eb3

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

20795e7fde6194fa8f3118ef9dd35d74e7828f0fc04b5324527bfeebc7020f2b

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