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Chapter 14: Other Audit Events. Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation. Chapter Topics:. Logging of Modifications to Groups, Accounts, Policies Object Access Logs. Changes to Accounts (Win XP). Event ID 624 records account creation
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Chapter 14: Other Audit Events Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation
Chapter Topics: • Logging of Modifications to Groups, Accounts, Policies • Object Access Logs
Changes to Accounts (Win XP) • Event ID 624 records account creation • Event ID 642 records changes to existing accounts • Event ID 626 shows accounts being activated
Changes to Accounts(Win Vista +) • Event ID 4720records account creation • Event ID 4738 records changes to existing accounts • Event ID 4722 shows accounts being activated
Changes to Accounts(Win XP) • New Account Name is account being modified • Caller User Name is account causing action
Changes to Accounts(Win Vista +) • New Account: Account Name is account being modified • Subject: Security ID is account causing action
Changes to Groups • Changes to group membership are common ways to increase an attacker’s privilege level • These events generate logs with the Event ID based on the type of group
Changes to Groups(Win XP) • The account that is impacted (added or removed from a group) is called the Member ID • Group that is changed is called the Target Account Name • The account that initiated the change is called the Caller User Name
Changes to Groups(Win Vista +) • The account that is impacted (added or removed from a group) is called the Member: Security ID • Group is the group that is changed • The account that initiated the change is called the Account Name
Changes to Audit Policy • Event ID 612 shows the end result of a change in audit policy
Changes to Audit Policy • Event ID 4719 shows the end result of a change in audit policy
Object Access • Objects include files, folders, printers, etc. • Auditing must be configured for each object • The object handle can be used to correlate related events in the event log
Object Access(Win XP) • Event ID 560 records opening of handles • Event ID 562 records closing of handles • Event ID 567 shows which access permissions were actually used
Object Access(Win Vista+) • Event ID 4656 records opening of handles • Event ID 4658 records closing of handles • Event ID 4657 shows which access permissions were actually used