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DCOM Lateral Movement

This detection looks for cases of close-time proximity between incoming network traffic on RPC/TCP, followed by the creation of a DCOM object, followed by the creation of a child process of the DCOM object. The query…

Description

This detection looks for cases of close-time proximity between incoming network traffic on RPC/TCP, followed by the creation of a DCOM object, followed by the creation of a child process of the DCOM object. The query first identifies incoming network traffic over RPC/TCP, followed by the creation of a DCOM object (process) within 2 seconds, followed by the creation of a child process of this DCOM object.

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
microsoftthreatprotection
Log source service
devicenetworkeventsdeviceprocessevents

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