Series: Minimizing EDR Attention This post is part of the Minimizing EDR Attention series on adapting red team implant tradecraft to the current detection landscape shaped by modern EDRs. The broader series is about narrowing the gap between how implants are often built in labs and how they are increasingly exposed in real environments. Each post takes one concrete problem seen in implants in the wild and looks at a focused design response.

The Problem In 2019 I wrote about Registration-Free COM loading as a way for operators to avoid registry writes and sidestep the LoadLibrary + GetProcAddress combo that EDRs flag. The core technique holds up, but the detection story was incomplete in ways that matter operationally. This post rebuilds the topic from the ground up, corrects those gaps, and introduces more progressive loading variants that span the tradeoff space between simplicity and forensic stealth.