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WsmAuto.dll

WSMAN Automation file version info

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

Is it the real WsmAuto.dll?

file version info and known copies
Original nameWSMANAUTOMATION.DLL in the file’s header: a renamed copy still carries it
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionWSMAN Automation

2 known copies

10.0.19041.488 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WsmAuto.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

3b463d0217e523dcba280cee1ea10819f2544c7ba2ef38abffec75dd21f8ef8c

10.0.19041.488 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\WsmAuto.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

cf55db4fd1710b2451f792e176067659977d69b676da75e31294e723ea1af077

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