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policymanager.dll

Policy Manager DLL file version info

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

Is it the real policymanager.dll?

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

2 known copies

10.0.19041.508 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\policymanager.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

29b8f2f3e045c198a02230865576444e8f5d3b6ebd6bd88d7a75ddd9c31d09c0

10.0.19041.508 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\policymanager.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

7ddc8a5b066c20995569afc809b3050e54e6b891d62c752e1947bcfeff0bbf7b

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