Windows 8 DLL File Information - mswsock.dll

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General Information

File Description:	Microsoft Windows Sockets 2.0 Service Provider
File Version:	6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247)
Company:	Microsoft Corporation
Product Name:	Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
DLL popularity	Low - 6 other DLL files in system32 directory are statically linked to this file.
File Size:	282 KB
Total Number of Exported Functions:	63
Total Number of Exported Functions With Names:	63

Section Headers

Name	Virtual Address	Raw Data Size	% of File	Characteristics	Section Contains...
.text	0x00001000	195,584 Bytes	67.6%	Read, Execute	Code
SANONTCP`ü	0x00031000	65,024 Bytes	22.5%	Read, Execute	Code
.data	0x00041000	4,608 Bytes	1.6%	Write, Read	Initialized Data
.idata	0x00043000	7,680 Bytes	2.7%	Read	Initialized Data
.rsrc	0x00045000	1,536 Bytes	0.5%	Read	Initialized Data
.reloc	0x00046000	13,824 Bytes	4.8%	Read, Discardable	Initialized Data

Static Linking

mswsock.dll is statically linked to the following files:

api-ms-win-core-crt-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-crt-l2-1-0.dll
ntdll.dll
RPCRT4.dll
WS2_32.dll
api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-registry-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-io-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-security-base-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-heap-obsolete-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-string-obsolete-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-apiquery-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-delayload-l1-1-1.dll

This means that when mswsock.dll is loaded, the above files are automatically loaded too. If one of these files is corrupted or missing, mswsock.dll won't be loaded.

List of files that are statically linked to mswsock.dll

iphlpsvc.dll
ipnathlp.dll
msdtctm.dll
ProximityCommon.dll
winsockhc.dll
wshelper.dll

This means that when one of the above files is loaded, mswsock.dll will be loaded too. (The opposite of the previous 'Static Linking' section)

General Resources Information

Resource Type	Number of Items	Total Size	% of File
Icons	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
Animated Icons	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
Cursors	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
Animated Cursors	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
Bitmaps	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
AVI Files	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
Dialog-Boxes	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
HTML Related Files	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
Menus	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
Strings	6	316 Bytes	0.1%
Type Libraries	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
Manifest	0	0 Bytes	0.0%
All Others	3	9,916 Bytes	3.4%
Total	9	10,232 Bytes	3.5%

Icons in this file

No icons found in this file

Cursors in this file

No cursors found in this file

Dialog-boxes list (up to 200 dialogs)

No dialog resources in this file.

String resources in this dll (up to 200 strings)

String ID	String Text
60100	MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP]
60101	MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP]
60102	MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IP]
60200	MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IPv6]
60201	MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IPv6]
60202	MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IPv6]

COM Classes/Interfaces

There is no type library in this file with COM classes/interfaces information

Exported Functions List

The following functions are exported by this dll:

AcceptEx	EnumProtocolsA	EnumProtocolsW
GetAcceptExSockaddrs	GetAddressByNameA	GetAddressByNameW
GetNameByTypeA	GetNameByTypeW	GetServiceA
GetServiceW	GetSocketErrorMessageW	GetTypeByNameA
GetTypeByNameW	MigrateWinsockConfiguration	MigrateWinsockConfigurationEx
NPLoadNameSpaces	NSPStartup	SetServiceA
SetServiceW	StartWsdpService	StopWsdpService
Tcpip4_WSHAddressToString	Tcpip4_WSHEnumProtocols	Tcpip4_WSHGetBroadcastSockaddr
Tcpip4_WSHGetProviderGuid	Tcpip4_WSHGetSockaddrType	Tcpip4_WSHGetSocketInformation
Tcpip4_WSHGetWSAProtocolInfo	Tcpip4_WSHGetWildcardSockaddr	Tcpip4_WSHGetWinsockMapping
Tcpip4_WSHIoctl	Tcpip4_WSHJoinLeaf	Tcpip4_WSHNotify
Tcpip4_WSHOpenSocket	Tcpip4_WSHOpenSocket2	Tcpip4_WSHSetSocketInformation
Tcpip4_WSHStringToAddress	Tcpip6_WSHAddressToString	Tcpip6_WSHEnumProtocols
Tcpip6_WSHGetProviderGuid	Tcpip6_WSHGetSockaddrType	Tcpip6_WSHGetSocketInformation
Tcpip6_WSHGetWSAProtocolInfo	Tcpip6_WSHGetWildcardSockaddr	Tcpip6_WSHGetWinsockMapping
Tcpip6_WSHIoctl	Tcpip6_WSHJoinLeaf	Tcpip6_WSHNotify
Tcpip6_WSHOpenSocket	Tcpip6_WSHOpenSocket2	Tcpip6_WSHSetSocketInformation
Tcpip6_WSHStringToAddress	TransmitFile	WSARecvEx
WSPStartup	dn_expand	getnetbyname
inet_network	rcmd	rexec
rresvport	s_perror	sethostname

Imported Functions List

The following functions are imported by this dll:

• api-ms-win-core-crt-l1-1-0.dll:
  

  ntdll!_except_handler4_common	ntdll!_strcmpi	ntdll!_vsnprintf_s	ntdll!_vsnwprintf_s
  ntdll!_wcsicmp	ntdll!_wcsnicmp	ntdll!atoi	ntdll!isdigit
  ntdll!memcmp	ntdll!memcpy	ntdll!memmove	ntdll!memset
  ntdll!strlen	ntdll!wcschr	ntdll!wcscpy_s	ntdll!wcslen
  ntdll!wcsncat_s	ntdll!wcsncpy_s	ntdll!wcsstr	ntdll!wcstol
  ntdll!wcstoul

• api-ms-win-core-crt-l2-1-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!_initterm

  KernelBase!_initterm_e

  KernelBase!hgets

  KernelBase!hwprintf

• ntdll.dll:
  

  EtwTraceMessage	NtAlertThread
  NtCancelIoFile	NtClearEvent
  NtClose	NtCreateEvent
  NtCreateIoCompletion	NtDelayExecution
  NtDeviceIoControlFile	NtLoadDriver
  NtOpenKey	NtQueryEvent
  NtQueryInformationFile	NtQuerySystemTime
  NtQueryValueKey	NtQueueApcThread
  NtRaiseException	NtReadFile
  NtRemoveIoCompletion	NtSetEvent
  NtSetInformationObject	NtSetInformationThread
  NtSetIoCompletion	NtWaitForMultipleObjects
  NtWaitForSingleObject	RtlAdjustPrivilege
  RtlAllocateHeap	RtlAnsiStringToUnicodeString
  RtlAppendUnicodeStringToString	RtlCaptureContext
  RtlDeleteCriticalSection	RtlDestroyHeap
  RtlFreeAnsiString	RtlFreeAnsiString
  RtlFreeHeap	RtlGetNtProductType
  RtlImpersonateSelf	RtlInitAnsiString
  RtlInitString	RtlInitUnicodeString
  RtlInitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount	RtlIntegerToUnicodeString
  RtlIpv4AddressToStringExW	RtlIpv4AddressToStringW
  RtlIpv4StringToAddressExW	RtlIpv4StringToAddressW
  RtlIpv6AddressToStringA	RtlIpv6AddressToStringExW
  RtlIpv6StringToAddressExW	RtlIpv6StringToAddressW
  RtlNtStatusToDosError	RtlQueryRegistryValuesEx
  RtlRaiseStatus	RtlRegisterSecureMemoryCacheCallback
  RtlStringFromGUID	RtlUnicodeStringToAnsiString
  ShipAssert	WinSqmIsOptedIn

• RPCRT4.dll:
  

  RpcStringFreeW

  UuidCreate

  UuidFromStringW

  UuidToStringW

• WS2_32.dll:
  

  WPUGetProviderPathEx	WSACleanup	WSAEnumProtocolsW	WSAGetLastError
  WSAIoctl	WSAIsBlocking	WSAProviderConfigChange	WSARecv
  WSASetLastError	WSASocketW	WSAStartup	WSCDeinstallProvider
  WSCDeinstallProviderEx	WSCEnumProtocols	WSCEnumProtocolsEx	WSCGetProviderPath
  WSCInstallProviderEx	WSCUpdateProvider	WSCUpdateProviderEx	WSCWriteProviderOrderEx
  WahCreateHandleContextTable	WahDestroyHandleContextTable	WahEnumerateHandleContexts	WahInsertHandleContext
  WahReferenceContextByHandle	WahRemoveHandleContext	closesocket	gethostname
  getnameinfo	getservbyname	getservbyport	htons
  htons	inet_addr	inet_ntoa	setsockopt

• api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!CreateEventA	KernelBase!CreateEventW
  KernelBase!InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount	KernelBase!OpenEventW
  KernelBase!ReleaseMutex	KernelBase!SetEvent
  KernelBase!Sleep	KernelBase!SleepEx
  KernelBase!WaitForMultipleObjectsEx	KernelBase!WaitForSingleObject
  KernelBase!WaitForSingleObjectEx	ntdll!RtlDeleteCriticalSection
  ntdll!RtlEnterCriticalSection	ntdll!RtlInitializeCriticalSection
  ntdll!RtlLeaveCriticalSection

• api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-2-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!GetSystemTimeAsFileTime

  KernelBase!GetTickCount

• api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-2-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!InterlockedCompareExchange	KernelBase!InterlockedDecrement	KernelBase!InterlockedExchange
  KernelBase!InterlockedExchangeAdd	KernelBase!InterlockedIncrement

• api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!CloseHandle

  KernelBase!DuplicateHandle

• api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-2-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!ExpandEnvironmentStringsA

  KernelBase!ExpandEnvironmentStringsW

  KernelBase!GetEnvironmentVariableW

• api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-1.dll:
  

  KernelBase!FreeLibrary	KernelBase!FreeLibraryAndExitThread	KernelBase!GetModuleFileNameW
  KernelBase!GetModuleHandleExA	KernelBase!GetProcAddress	KernelBase!LoadLibraryExW

• api-ms-win-core-registry-l1-1-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!RegCloseKey	KernelBase!RegCreateKeyExW	KernelBase!RegDeleteKeyExW	KernelBase!RegEnumKeyExW
  KernelBase!RegOpenKeyExA	KernelBase!RegOpenKeyExW	KernelBase!RegQueryValueExA	KernelBase!RegQueryValueExW
  KernelBase!RegSetValueExA	KernelBase!RegSetValueExW

• api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-1.dll:
  

  KernelBase!GetLastError	KernelBase!SetUnhandledExceptionFilter	KernelBase!UnhandledExceptionFilter
  ntdll!RtlRestoreLastWin32Error

• api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll:
  

  KernelBase!OpenProcessToken	kernel32!CreateThread	kernel32!GetCurrentProcess	kernel32!GetCurrentProcessId
  kernel32!GetCurrentThread	kernel32!GetCurrentThreadId	kernel32!OpenProcess	kernel32!ResumeThread
  kernel32!SetThreadPriority	kernel32!TerminateProcess	kernel32!TerminateThread	kernel32!TlsAlloc
  kernel32!TlsFree	kernel32!TlsGetValue	kernel32!TlsSetValue

• api-ms-win-core-io-l1-1-1.dll:
  

  kernel32!CreateIoCompletionPort

  kernel32!GetOverlappedResult

  kernel32!PostQueuedCompletionStatus

• api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-1.dll:
  

  KernelBase!OutputDebugStringA

• api-ms-win-security-base-l1-2-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!GetTokenInformation

• api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!MultiByteToWideChar

  KernelBase!WideCharToMultiByte

• api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!CreateFileA

  KernelBase!SetFilePointer

• api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-1.dll:
  

  KernelBase!VirtualAlloc

  KernelBase!VirtualFree

• api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!FormatMessageW

• api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-2-0.dll:
  

  KernelBase!GetProcessHeap

  ntdll!RtlFreeHeap

• api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll:
  

  ntdll!RtlQueryPerformanceCounter

• api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll:
  

  ntdll!RtlDecodePointer

  ntdll!RtlEncodePointer

• api-ms-win-core-heap-obsolete-l1-1-0.dll:
  

  kernel32!LocalAlloc

  kernel32!LocalFree

• api-ms-win-core-string-obsolete-l1-1-0.dll:
  

  kernel32!lstrcmpW

• api-ms-win-core-apiquery-l1-1-0.dll:
  

  ntdll!ApiSetQueryApiSetPresence

• api-ms-win-core-delayload-l1-1-1.dll:
  

  kernel32!DelayLoadFailureHook

  ntdll!LdrResolveDelayLoadedAPI