pla.dll
Performance Logs & Alerts file version info
Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it
Is it the real pla.dll?
Installed in
C:\Windows\system32\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionPerformance Logs & Alerts
2 known copies
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\pla.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
44c16e194258c9143a45f4022f9c5de229e217d6ff7f944f105fe631be9ef4a710.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\pla.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
c2a583893795478556573db3a020ee607fabe7e37473d094d825f96c4912c43dFrom 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 pla.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.