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wmsgapi.dll

WinLogon IPC Client file version info

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

Is it the real wmsgapi.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionWinLogon IPC Client

2 known copies

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

0e387d1635666c44c041f02fb0273ffa176b90c4c722b138be564dea1fa16963

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wmsgapi.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

75563ed180ddd3ced93105022f88ab37b542721432df28ce743a8448850d5d00

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