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vssapi.dll

Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Requestor/Writer Services API DLL file version info

Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 2 Sigma rules name it

Is it the real vssapi.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 Requestor/Writer Services API DLL

2 known copies

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

7fae1f44d444a22fda069c101416cbfb4dd537053db6d5b887c944a83cf39cc5

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

b855f615114a1294bfd927efac262e0daf388be4519dc70b1085b1f5028402cf

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 vssapi.dll in 2 rules, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.