A while ago, I encountered some inconsistencies in Windows update file hashes. Specifically, for several files, the SHA256 hash in the manifest file didn't match the MD5 hash of the file itself. These were some language resource files which I didn't have on my computer, and which I didn't find on VirusTotal. Back then, I didn't research this further.
With one of today's updates, it happened again, this time with a file which I