Suspicious Execution of Renamed AdFind (via process_creation)

This rule detects the use of a renamed Adfind.exe. AdFind continues to be seen across majority of breaches. It is leveraged to domain trust discovery to plan out subsequent steps in the attack chain.

SigmahighWindowsv1
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Known false positives

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Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.