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polstore.dll

Policy Storage dll file version info

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

Is it the real polstore.dll?

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

2 known copies

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

4a6ccb119ce1c285b893574e732afd997f467ec8a2d877d7197bda8eb76236a4

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

8fa4bdb4f66eda2290b5721758faea5746920c5264afbc05d17908b7ca3e5f55

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