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tapi32.dll

Microsoft Windows(TM) Telephony API Client DLL file version info

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

Is it the real tapi32.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionMicrosoft Windows(TM) Telephony API Client DLL

2 known copies

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\tapi32.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

7c9e66823c48f82950ba3a546669b5d6b642c4df1b3f45037ffe1823918b5305

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\tapi32.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

e9bb06ae707839e632d9c1bd6fd117d8a7f8e3c383ff5db90e80ce258c13fa8a

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 tapi32.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.