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Privilege Elevation via Parent Process PID Spoofing

This rule detects parent process spoofing used to create an elevated child process, specifically targeting privilege escalation to SYSTEM, where adversaries may spoof the parent process identifier (PPID) of a new process to evade process-monitoring defenses or to elevate privileges on Windows systems.

Elastic Endpoint +2 privilege-escalation windows ppid-spoofing
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