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windows.storage.dll

Microsoft WinRT Storage API file version info

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

Is it the real windows.storage.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionMicrosoft WinRT Storage API

2 known copies

10.0.19041.508 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\windows.storage.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

4f059f2fd1932dde9770b4cf6cba01149a4a56aa53e3dc9a1d646fcbbf5eeac4

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

02aff6ea7ba2e0f3bcfebf0ddd38badc0ec69d37a02aba48f758a8d04c922ae2

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