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wldp.dll

Windows Lockdown Policy file version info

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

Is it the real wldp.dll?

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

2 known copies

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

667e1e1d7c290ff579039ea8a5e653115b50983f2ca7cef4b76a3ed1272cf523

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

f9491e4c7077061be9e689b354202b43852d1b82c631183b7f7a4a27b9288b84

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