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PeerDistSh.dll

BranchCache Netshell Helper file version info

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

Is it the real PeerDistSh.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionBranchCache Netshell Helper

2 known copies

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

c6fd766f505bbc4bcc2dac987c598b9b7742650a7a9388b769b104e53d57b874

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

d267b582ffbeabfa8ffdc4088b91799faae273463bb3c09874ef637064848106

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