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Potential Excel.EXE DCOM Lateral Movement Via ActivateMicrosoftApp (551d9c1f-816c-445b-a7a6-7a3864720d60)

Detects suspicious child processes of Excel which could be an indicator of lateral movement leveraging the "ActivateMicrosoftApp" Excel DCOM object.

Cluster A Galaxy A Cluster B Galaxy B Level
Potential Excel.EXE DCOM Lateral Movement Via ActivateMicrosoftApp (551d9c1f-816c-445b-a7a6-7a3864720d60) Sigma-Rules Distributed Component Object Model - T1021.003 (68a0c5ed-bee2-4513-830d-5b0d650139bd) Attack Pattern 1
Distributed Component Object Model - T1021.003 (68a0c5ed-bee2-4513-830d-5b0d650139bd) Attack Pattern Remote Services - T1021 (54a649ff-439a-41a4-9856-8d144a2551ba) Attack Pattern 2