# Getting crazy with nnotes.dll

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-crazy-with-nnotes-dll/349544>\
**Category:** Endpoint Security\
**Created:** [December 18, 2023, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-crazy-with-nnotes-dll/349544 "2023-12-18T09:24:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-crazy-with-nnotes-dll/349544/4 "2024-01-02T16:08:01Z")

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Ah, ok. I didn't realize that was your concern.

Without seeing the alert I can't be sure why its being flagged. If it is being caught by a malware signature you should see a the field `file.Ext.malware_signature` which will contain some details describing what signature matched it.

If it didn't match a signature it may still have been caught by the malware machine learning model, which will contain details in the field `file.Ext.malware_classification`. If there is a matching malware signature, the score reported in `malware_classification` field may be explicitly reported as 1.0 despite what the model calculated (depending on your Endpoint version). If there isn't a matching signature, or the score isn't 1.0, then a higher score means the file has more correlation with other known malware but there isn't more information for you to dig into.

I know it might be a little hard to parse what I wrote above. If you'd like, go ahead share a sanitized alert here and I can see what information can be gleaned from it.

You seem confident this is a false positive. Please report the false positive using [these](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/submitting-false-positives/232322) instructions or if you have Elastic support via that channel.

I hope that helps.

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