Malicious Impacket DCOMexec Privilege Abuse via MMC (via security)

Analysis Detection

ATT&CK techniques

Lateral Movement

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
Persistence
Priv Esc
Defense Evasion
Cred Access
Discovery
Lateral Movement
- T1021.003Distributed Component Object Model
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects execute the Impacket DCOMexec tool in order to abuse DCOM services.

Reporting behind it

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