sxshared.dll
Microsoft Windows SX Shared Library file version info
Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it
Is it the real sxshared.dll?
Original name
sx_shared.dll in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries itInstalled in
C:\Windows\system32\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionMicrosoft Windows SX Shared Library
2 known copies
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\sxshared.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
04895b438e7cf902662c99b45ab9fca94980fa92299a53f849ff5187d36321fd10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sxshared.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
411d0bb2b3415630bd30aca8a9c673592558064ceab41711ad146d5b44871c2eFrom 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 names sxshared.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.