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StructuredQuery.dll

Structured Query file version info

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

Is it the real StructuredQuery.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductWindows Search, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionStructured Query

2 known copies

7.0.19041.388 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\StructuredQuery.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

0229d6571c613355d2337009265f742b807d98afcf5a5e34fd74fc38f1d03b1c

7.0.19041.388 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\StructuredQuery.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

5232a60c33e94d9abc30986cbeb8e7bebda91191df6f92d5aec73f4607da89f8

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