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user32.dll

Multi-User Windows USER API Client DLL file version info

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

Is it the real user32.dll?

file version info and known copies
Original nameuser32 in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionMulti-User Windows USER API Client DLL

2 known copies

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\user32.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

0e3a74135b137dc1a8b601e434018d1425ccf00dad7c85b52ba541e0ed5bd6de

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\user32.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

cc9efe1bd22f42ceaf08676b2da829f6b9da03f60d3b4f036ef209b10f93d3c6

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 process creation rules that name user32.dll