pla.dll
Performance Logs & Alerts by Microsoft
| Version: | 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623) |
| MD5: | 928061178cd9856ca6b67fffce6ba766 |
| SHA1: | bf6efe17c945470ccb5adbdc04684c302321131e |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
Overview
pla.dll executes as a process under the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges (the system and the administrator accounts have the same file privileges) typically within the context of its parent
svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation). The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). and is compiled as a 64 bit program.
Details
| File name: | pla.dll |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Performance Logs & Alerts |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\pla.dll |
| Original name: | PLA.DLL.MUI |
| File version: | 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623) |
| Product version: | 6.3.9600.16384 |
| Size: | 1.38 MB (1,443,840 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.102473 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Scheduled tasks
- The job 'RAM - Padrao' runs in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\RAM - Padrao'
- The task 'New Data Collector Set' runs in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\New Data Collector Set'
- The task 'LSC Memory' runs in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\LSC Memory'
- The job 'System Overview' runs in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\System Overview'
- The job 'ConvertLogEntries' in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\System\ConvertLogEntries'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\System Overview'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\Server Manager Performance Monitor'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\KCTR$1179'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\New Data Collector Set'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\System\ConvertLogEntries'
Hosted services
Runs as a shared service under the Windows svcHost
- Shared name is 'pla'
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- Shared name is 'pla'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00006033% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004813% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001220% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 289 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 18,157/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 4.64 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 8.96 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 8.89 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 4.64 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 67.21 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 77.73 MB | |
| Working set: | 8.96 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.96 MB | |
| Page faults: | 8,578/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 275 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 208 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\System32\pla.dll,plahost "lsc memory" "0xd2c_0x1eac_0x2228f02b34"
- C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\System32\pla.dll,plahost "lsc memory" "0x3fb4_0x3b40_0x1298eb50392"
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| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Parent process: | svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation) |
Threads
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
52.38% |
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| Windows Vista Ultimate |
11.11% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
7.94% |
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| Windows Vista Home Basic |
7.94% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
4.76% |
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| Windows 8 |
4.76% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
4.76% |
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| Windows Vista Business |
3.17% |
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| Windows Server 2008 Standard |
1.59% |
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| Windows Server 2012 Standard Evaluation |
1.59% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 58.33% of Performance Logs & Alerts.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Lenovo |
32.26% |
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| Dell |
22.58% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
16.13% |
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| Sony |
12.90% |
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| ASUS |
9.68% |
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| Intel |
3.23% |
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| American Megatrends |
1.61% |
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| Samsung |
1.61% |
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