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What is vboxhook.dll?

Part of Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Oracle

What is it?

VirtualBox Hook Driver is part of Oracle VM VirtualBox, an x86 virtualization software package developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products. Oracle VM VirtualBox is installed on an existing host operating system as an application; this host application allows additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, to be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.
Description of vboxhook.dll from Oracle
“VirtualBox is powerful Cross-platform Virtualization Software for x86-based systems. "Cross-platform" means that it installs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris x86 computers. And "Virtualization Software" means that you can create and run multiple Virtual Machines, running different operating systems, on the same computer at the same time. For example, you can run Windows and Linux on your Mac, run Linux and Solaris on your Windows PC, or run Windows on you Linux systems.”
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How is vboxhook.dll loaded?

Process Module - vboxhook.dll is loaded as a .Net assembly module within the process vboxtray.exe (Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Oracle Corporation). (An assembly is a logical unit of functionality that runs under the control of the .NET common language runtime CLR.)
Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions is loaded by:

Community

What is the community is seeing?What is the community is doing?
About 0.4% of all Boost users have the vboxhook.dll file.Of the 0.4% of vboxhook.dll users, 12.5% have disabled it.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Windows\System32\vboxhook.dll

Are there other versions of Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Add...?

vboxhook.dll - version 4.1.18.78361
vboxhook.dll - version 4.1.18.78361 (this)
Why are multiple of the same versions listed?

What else is related?

vboxtray.exe (Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Oracle)
vboxhook.dll (Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Sun Microsystems)
vboxmrxnp.dll (Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Sun Microsystems)
vboxservice.exe (Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Sun Microsystems)
vboxtray.exe (Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Sun Microsystems)
vboxmrxnp.dll (Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Oracle)
vboxmrxnp.dll (Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Oracle)
vboxservice.exe (Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Oracle)
jsoundds.dll (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U15 by Oracle America)
jsound.dll (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U15 by Oracle America)
management.dll (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U15 by Oracle America)
jqs.exe (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U40 by Oracle America)
npjp2.dll (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U40 by Oracle America)
npdeployjava1.dll (Java Deployment Toolkit 7.0.400.43 by Oracle America)
javaw.exe (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U40 by Oracle America)
jp2ssv.dll (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U40 by Oracle America)
ssv.dll (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U40 by Oracle America)
wsdetect.dll (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U25 by Oracle America)
management.dll (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U25 by Oracle America)
jp2iexp.dll (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U25 by Oracle America)
jp2launcher.exe (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U25 by Oracle America)
jpeg.dll (Java(TM) Platform SE 7 U17 by Oracle America)

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate (6.0.6000.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate N (6.1.7601.65536)

About Oracle Corporation

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File details

File name: vboxhook.dll
Publisher: Oracle Corporation (verified)
Name: Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions
Description: VirtualBox Hook Driver
Version: 4.1.18.78361
Product version: 4.1.18.r78361
Size: 65.84 KB
Original file name: VBoxHook.dll

Digital certificate

Issued to: Oracle Corporation

Image hashes

MD5: 9858053da4d326651c88cf41288787c9
SHA-1: 5560bd68cc62a295bddf3b266415590fcc148bad
SHA-256: c7e6cbe8d3fca3a96b645a449ef2c09fa555f967bbed3621101b58c4d9cbd6bd

PE image details

CLR assembly: Yes
CLR NGENed: No
Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET
File packed: No
Import Table
kernel32.dll
ole32.dll
user32.dll
Export Table
vboxinstallhook
vboxremovehook
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