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# WMI

WMI can be used to access remote windows components using RPC calls on TCP port 135.

Ex.&#x20;

```
wmic /node:REMOTEIP /user:DOMAIN\USER /password:PASSWORD process call create“C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe”
```
