Lateral Movement Lolbas

Description

Manually using the command line to start a process on a remote endpoint leveraging the DCOM protocol for lateral movement and remote code execution.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1021.003 Distributed Component Object Model Lateral Movement

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory lateral_movement_lolbas
Test Date 2021-11-23

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1021.003/lateral_movement_lolbas/windows-sysmon.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

The following detections in our security content repository use this attack data for testing:

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Mmc LOLBAS Execution Process Spawn TTP Endpoint T1021.003, T1218.014 Active Directory Lateral Movement, Living Off The Land, Water Gamayun

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

Replay attack data with replay.py from Splunk Attack Data.

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1021.003/lateral_movement_lolbas/windows-sysmon.log --index attack_data

Manual Import

  1. Download the dataset files from the paths listed above
  2. Configure your Splunk instance with the appropriate sourcetypes
  3. Import the logs using the Splunk Add Data wizard

Find more detections and analytics for this attack technique in our security content repository.


Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0