On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Kevin Branch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've noticed that while the Windows Event Viewer shows fairly human readable
> information in audit records, like this audit log section:
>
> Access Reasons: READ_CONTROL: Granted by D:(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;BU)
> SYNCHRONIZE: Granted by D:(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;BU)
> ReadData (or ListDirectory): Granted by D:(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;BU)
> ReadEA: Granted by D:(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;BU)
> ReadAttributes: Granted by D:(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;BU)
>
>
> that the underlying XML of the same Windows log entry is full of %% codes in
> place of human readable terms, like this:
>
>  <Data Name="AccessReason">%%1538: %%1801 D:(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;BU)
> %%1541: %%1801 D:(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;BU)
> %%4416: %%1801 D:(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;BU)
> %%4419: %%1801 D:(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;BU)
> %%4423: %%1801 D:(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;BU)
> </Data>
>
>
> Would it be plausible to have the OSSEC Windows agent render this content
> using the same facility that the Windows Event Viewer does, before sending
> the event along to the OSSEC server?
>

Would this require the agent to decode the information first?
Do you have a link to the facility you're talking about?

>
> I use OSSEC agents to convey Windows logs back to my OSSEC server for
> analysis and stashing into my ELK system.  While I will probably do textual
> search and replace on the ELK side to resolve this issue for now, it strikes
> me there would be broader benefit to the OSSEC Windows community if the
> OSSEC agent itself were to render "Access List" and "Access Reason" elements
> of Windows audit log records in the same way that the Windows Event Viewer
> does.
>
>
> Thanks for listening,
>
> Kevin
>
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