Suspicious Sensitive File Dump Through Print.EXE (via process_creation)

This rule detects the misuse of the Print.exe utility for credential harvesting which involves using Print.Exe to copy sensitive files such as ntds.dit, SAM, SECURITY, or SYSTEM from the Windows directory to extract credentials, locally or remotely.

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Known false positives

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