Suspicious Explorer NOUACCHECK Flag (via process_creation)

This rule detects anomalous starts of explorer.exe that use the /NOUACCHECK flag that enables to run all sub processes of that newly started explorer.exe without any UAC checks

SigmahighWindowsv1
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Known false positives

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