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puiapi.dll

puiapi DLL file version info

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

Is it the real puiapi.dll?

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

2 known copies

10.0.19041.423 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\puiapi.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

31637a2720062ecd6b3eeb13504894558e9dc7e634acec1b661ec82a5547e13d

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

2acfe461546c062ee714a0b47725ef158fe5add2fc159677fe9219a42a1a7f63

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