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Abusing DCOM For Yet Another Lateral Movement Technique

An exploration of a new method to abuse DCOM for remote payload execution and lateral movement.

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Abusing DCOM For Yet Another Lateral Movement Technique Description

This post discusses an alternate DCOM lateral movement discovery and payload execution method by locating DCOM registry key/values that point to the path of a non-existing binary on the 'remote' machine, providing an example method that may work if mobsync.exe is not in the default location on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 R2 systems.

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