Windows Security Log Event ID 5038

Operating Systems Windows 2008 R2 and 7
Windows 2012 R2 and 8.1
Windows 2016 and 10
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Category
 • Subcategory
System
 • System Integrity
Type Failure
Corresponding events
in Windows 2003
and before
 

5038: Code integrity determined that the image hash of a file is not valid

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Examples of 5038

Code integrity determined that the image hash of a file is not valid.  The file could be corrupt due to unauthorized modification or the invalid hash could indicate a potential disk device error.

File Name: \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\Drivers\memctl\vmmemctl.sys

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