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Potential Excel.EXE DCOM Lateral Movement Via ActivateMicrosoftApp
Target Profile
Splunk
Splunk SPL & tstats data model queries
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Plain SPL queries
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Potential Excel.EXE DCOM Lateral Movement Via ActivateMicrosoftApp
Using Splunk · Default · sigma-cli 2.0.2
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BackendSplunkFormatDefaultVersion2.0.2
title: Potential Excel.EXE DCOM Lateral Movement Via ActivateMicrosoftApp
id: 551d9c1f-816c-445b-a7a6-7a3864720d60
status: test
description: |
Detects suspicious child processes of Excel which could be an indicator of lateral movement leveraging the "ActivateMicrosoftApp" Excel DCOM object.
references:
- https://posts.specterops.io/lateral-movement-abuse-the-power-of-dcom-excel-application-3c016d0d9922
- https://github.com/grayhatkiller/SharpExShell
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/excel.xlmsapplication
author: Aaron Stratton
date: 2023-11-13
tags:
- attack.t1021.003
- attack.lateral-movement
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: windows
detection:
selection_parent:
ParentImage|endswith: '\excel.exe'
selection_child:
- OriginalFileName:
- 'foxprow.exe'
- 'schdplus.exe'
- 'winproj.exe'
- Image|endswith:
- '\foxprow.exe'
- '\schdplus.exe'
- '\winproj.exe'
condition: all of selection_*
falsepositives:
- Unknown
level: high
CLI command
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sigma convert --without-pipeline -t splunk -f default rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_office_excel_dcom_lateral_movement.yml