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wer.dll

Windows Error Reporting DLL file version info

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

Is it the real wer.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionWindows Error Reporting DLL

2 known copies

10.0.19041.423 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wer.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

390d49d1bdac820f6c81f0554fa540ffc488b7bbc96420ae6a73cbbc33c45ff4

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

9c78371a5db35effc16ac34e217a47a27c280d5c1a6c5e6f7441b133b26adfaa

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