Description
'This query detects a fairly uncommon attack technique using the Windows Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) to make a remote execution call to another computer system and gain lateral movement throughout the network.
Ref: http://thenegative.zone/incident%20response/2017/02/04/MMC20.Application-Lateral-Movement-Analysis.html'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.3
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 1h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
Event
| where EventLog =~ "Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational" and EventID==1
| parse EventData with * 'CommandLine">' CommandLine "<" * 'ParentCommandLine">' ParentCommandLine "<" *
| where ParentCommandLine =~ "C:\\Windows\\System32\\svchost.exe -k DcomLaunch" and CommandLine =~ "C:\\Windows\\System32\\mmc.exe -Embedding"
| parse EventData with * 'ProcessGuid">' ProcessGuid "<" * 'Image">' Image "<" * 'Description">' Description "<" * 'CurrentDirectory">' CurrentDirectory "<" * 'User">' User "<" * 'LogonGuid">' LogonGuid "<" * 'ParentProcessGuid">' ParentProcessGuid "<" * 'ParentImage">' ParentImage "<" * 'ParentCommandLine">' ParentCommandLine "<" * 'ParentUser">' ParentUser "<" *
| summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTime = max(TimeGenerated) by EventID, Computer, User, ParentImage, ParentProcessGuid, ParentCommandLine, ParentUser, Image, ProcessGuid, CommandLine, Description
| extend HostName = iif(Computer has '.',substring(Computer,0,indexof(Computer,'.')),Computer) , DnsDomain = iif(Computer has '.',substring(Computer,indexof(Computer,'.')+1),'')
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
50cbf34a-4cdd-45d7-b3f5-8b53a1d0d14f
Additional source files 3
Solutions/Endpoint Threat Protection Essentials/Analytic Rules/LateralMovementViaDCOM.yamlsource ↗Detections/SecurityEvent/LateralMovementViaDCOM.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Endpoint Threat Protection Essentials/Data/Solution_EndpointThreatProtectionEssentials.jsonsolution-membership ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC