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PlaySndSrv.dll

PlaySound Service file version info

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

Is it the real PlaySndSrv.dll?

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

2 known copies

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

1c1ba6399f6d2c6d50835848d7bf1b437d443c098a693286c16acc347c08200b

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

b5cb071a374fbde22b6440996815dc6e715882d0d03877990c02502515bdbd72

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