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vss_ps.dll

Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service proxy/stub file version info

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

Is it the real vss_ps.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionMicrosoft Volume Shadow Copy Service proxy/stub

2 known copies

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

760351d62579c07abb4c61abd285e51409e0efc6d59dda1d5ef9e9080bb7cc83

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

91e7efefdf36976054ed5daf82b0fc873c13c76bb3cb081ab521519f1378e7de

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