VBoxTAP.sys
VirtualBox Host Interface Networking Driver file version info
Driver on Windows LOLDrivers vulnerable driver
A known vulnerable driver
T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
2 known samples
8/2 · its entry
994f322def98c99aec7ea0036ef5f4b802120458782ae3867d116d55215c56e48/2 · its entry
cfa28e2f624f927d4cbd2952306570d86901d2f24e3d07cc6277e98289d09783From LOLDrivers (Apache 2.0). A driver is known by its hash: a sample under another name is the same driver. In Ceplin, "<sha256>".whatis() says which sample a hash is.
Is it the real VBoxTAP.sys?
ProductVirtualBox Host Interface Networking Driver, innotek GmbH
DescriptionVirtualBox Host Interface Networking Driver
From the file’s version info, as 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.