Suspicious New DNS ServerLevelPluginDll Installed Through Dnscmd.EXE (via process_creation)

This rule detects the installation of a DNS plugin DLL via ServerLevelPluginDll parameter in registry, that can be leveraged to execute code in context of the DNS server (restart required)

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