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wininet.dll

Internet Extensions for Win32 file version info

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

Is it the real wininet.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductInternet Explorer, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionInternet Extensions for Win32

2 known copies

11.00.19041.508 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wininet.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

7d2c19b2d67592e978ecde8a9ae6051c6db30eba9cacef8f5a2b2cd6ec76550a

11.00.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\wininet.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

5587ba1202b712484ab4ad61f20fc0f08ec6a7228891ef9353737ea4e85e5ec4

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