Suspicious Execution Of Renamed Sysinternals Utilities - Registry (via registry_set)

This rule detects the creation of the "accepteula" key related to the Sysinternals tools being created from executables with the wrong name (e.g. a renamed Sysinternals tool)

SigmahighWindowsv1
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