wbemcons.dll
WMI Standard Event Consumers file version info
Library on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it
Is it the real wbemcons.dll?
Original name
WbemCons in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries itInstalled in
C:\Windows\system32\wbem\Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionWMI Standard Event Consumers
1 known copy
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\wbem\wbemcons.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
d5e85e09723063f643f1057b6b07a5899b2df1eb84bec94c39f383cb43b6e6a5From 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 names wbemcons.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.