Possible Arbitrary Code Execution Through Node.EXE (via process_creation)

This rule detects the execution node.exe which is shipped with multiple software such as VMware, Adobe...etc. To execute arbitrary code. For example to establish reverse shell as seen in Log4j attacks...etc

SigmahighWindowsv1
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Known false positives

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