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pcaui.dll

Program Compatibility Assistant User Interface Module file version info

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

Is it the real pcaui.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionProgram Compatibility Assistant User Interface Module

2 known copies

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

829186f4ab7ce3a5297d0733c65f02f63aea936458f67ec4e3d4d641517fba8c

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

979ad5d106a110717cb7db72a72c8202fd02b9f2bfa84f3050e23c86befb36e4

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