wmiclnt.dll
WMI Client API file version info
Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 2 Sigma rules name it
Is it the real wmiclnt.dll?
Installed in
C:\Windows\system32\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionWMI Client API
2 known copies
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\wmiclnt.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
c13fd6a6e23241785e09329a9368d1101dabc7f4f8ea5ae9d9852c660e29354010.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wmiclnt.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
dd53d6079f8c1dac64ec1a0ba31a99ccdb2173f455a68ad82636a5c2290580d8From 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 wmiclnt.dll in 2 rules, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.