Execution of Suspicious AgentExecutor PowerShell (via process_creation)

This rule detects execution of the AgentExecutor.exe binary. That can be misused as a LOLBIN to execute powershell scripts with the ExecutionPolicy "Bypass" or any binary named "powershell.exe" located in the path provided by 6th positional argument

SigmahighWindowsv1
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Known false positives

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