Suspicious WMIC Execution Through Office Process (via process_creation)

This rule detects office application called wmic to proxye execution through a LOLBIN process. This is frequently used to break anomalous parent-child chain (Office app spawns LOLBin).

SigmahighWindowsv1
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Known false positives

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