intelligence_src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7
- Source-provided label
- Publisher RSS metadata
- Evidence class
- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Jul 05, 2021 20:00 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 13, 2026 14:55 UTC
Automating Microsoft Office to Achieve Red Teaming Objectives
Many Windows applications and services are implemented using an automation infrastructure called Component Object Model (COM). COM has been around for decades and its useful for programming, sharing of code at binary level, usage from scripting languages, and well, red teaming. Wide Usage of Component Object Model Many products are implemented as COM objects, including Microsoft Office. Using PowerShell (or other languages) COM objects can be created to fully automate applications and services.
Reference details
- Source category
- research-report
- First reported
- Jul 05, 2021 20:00 UTC
- Last reported
- Jul 05, 2021 20:00 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 13, 2026 14:55 UTC
- Record ID
e78097ccc9e493fd74b78afb705cd87f4d9e7b0db9d6637497e6403f572291ac
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