DCOM Lateral Movement via MMC, Outlook, Excel or WMI Process Spawning
Detects potential DCOM-based lateral movement by monitoring for suspicious process spawns from COM surrogates (dllhost.exe), WMI provider hosts (wmiprvse.exe), or remote invocation of office/management applications (mmc.exe, excel.exe, outlook.exe) that subsequently execute command shells or scripting interpreters.
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