2.9 COM hijacking
Component Object Model (COM) is a system that allows the software components to interact and communicate with each other, even if they have no knowledge of each other's code (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms694363(v=vs.85).aspx). The software components interact with each other through the use of COM objects, and these objects can be within a single process, other processes, or on remote computers. COM is implemented as a client/server framework. A COM client is a program that uses the service from the COM server (COM object), and a COM server is an object which provides service to the COM clients. The COM server implements an interface consisting of various methods (functions), either in a DLL (called in-process ...
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