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samcli.dll

Security Accounts Manager Client DLL file version info

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

Is it the real samcli.dll?

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

2 known copies

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

54c1e5fde7995eae47f77f31067de065af3eb097233a601db8d754ba8aaf7b2c

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

954a0310315e9cc58916a619d3bcd82c607c4925e87034d59f4cd22a0118fd09

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