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Introduction to COM usage by Windows threats
Component Object Model (COM) is a Windows technology that enables inter-process communication and component reuse across programming languages, but threat actors also use it for lateral movement, execution, persistence, and evasion. Security analysts often overlook COM during triage because analyzing COM functionality in binaries is labor-intensive and requires understanding opaque GUIDs and indirect function calls. This introduction covers COM fundamentals, analysis techniques, malware examples, and resources for researchers studying COM-based threats.
Why it matters: Security analysts and reverse engineers need to recognize and analyze COM usage in malware to detect lateral movement, execution, persistence, and evasion techniques that threat actors routinely employ through COM interfaces and DCOM for remote attacks.
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Introduction to COM usage by Windows threats
Component Object Model (COM) is a Windows technology that enables inter-process communication and component reuse across programming languages, but threat actors also use it for lateral movement, execution, persistence, and evasion. Security analysts often overlook COM during triage because analyzing COM functionality in binaries is labor-intensive and requires understanding opaque GUIDs and indirect function calls. This introduction covers COM fundamentals, analysis techniques, malware examples, and resources for researchers studying COM-based threats.
Why it matters: Security analysts and reverse engineers need to recognize and analyze COM usage in malware to detect lateral movement, execution, persistence, and evasion techniques that threat actors routinely employ through COM interfaces and DCOM for remote attacks.
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- First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker