Suspicious Rar Use with Password and Compression Level (via process_creation)

This rule detects the use of rar.exe, on the command line, to create an archive with password protection or with a specific compression level. This is pretty indicative of hostile actions.

SigmahighWindowsv1
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Known false positives

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