WindowsCodecs.dll
Microsoft Windows Codecs Library file version info
Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it
Is it the real WindowsCodecs.dll?
WindowsCodecs in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries itC:\Windows\system32\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\2 known copies
10.0.19041.388 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsCodecs.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
1b29675f3466578967d16fd3a679b22719e0384c10f91159726e38dde7b5b3c110.0.19041.388 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\WindowsCodecs.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
5162bd246cff9eb7bfd55ec3ad53107bd1a353180914cdb235e717b1688d2c66From 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 WindowsCodecs.dll in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.