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Lateral Movement via DCOM

This query detects a fairly uncommon attack technique using the Windows Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) to make a remote execution call to another computer system and gain lateral movement throughout the…

Description

This query detects a fairly uncommon attack technique using the Windows Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) to make a remote execution call to another computer system and gain lateral movement throughout the network. Ref: http://thenegative.zone/incident%20response/2017/02/04/MMC20.Application-Lateral-Movement-Analysis.html

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform
Windows

The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.

Log source product
securityeventswindowssecurityevents
Log source service
securityevent

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