MMC20 Lateral Movement

Title: MMC20 Lateral Movement
Status: test
Description:Detects MMC20.Application Lateral Movement; specifically looks for the spawning of the parent MMC.exe with a command line of "-Embedding" as a child of svchost.exe
References:
  -https://enigma0x3.net/2017/01/05/lateral-movement-using-the-mmc20-application-com-object/
  -https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKya3_mLnR3UQuCoiYruO3qgu052_iS_/view?usp=sharing
Author: @2xxeformyshirt (Security Risk Advisors) - rule; Teymur Kheirkhabarov (idea)
Date: 2020-03-04
modified:2021-11-27
Tags:

• -'attack.execution'
• -'attack.lateral-movement'
• -'attack.t1021.003'

Logsource:

• category: process_creation
• product: windows

Detection:
  selection:
    ParentImage|endswith: '\svchost.exe'
    Image|endswith: '\mmc.exe'
    CommandLine|contains: '-Embedding'
  condition:selection
Falsepositives:
  -Unlikely
Level: high