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wlidprov.dll

Microsoft Account Provider file version info

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

Is it the real wlidprov.dll?

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

2 known copies

10.0.19041.423 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\wlidprov.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

05621eba121525776ac86f3021ee3076bddfb6838dbba0c77a3a5cdfb58834ce

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

e935b5690d67700c285adf37b655dc43d8b3b9e3f90827b5e82bc16d1bd7f694

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