Any Windows users want to take a look at this?

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Jahchan, Georges J.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am using the eventchannel format. Eventlog provides no useful information
> for logs other than the three basics: Application, Security and System.
>
> If confirmed, this is a significant bug that impacts the integrity of all
> deployments of Windows agents, as far as I can determine at minimum on
> Windows 10, other versions are TBD.
>
> I unfortunately do not have at hand other versions of Windows to test with,
> in order to determine whether it is an issue related to the agent that
> therefore impacts all Windows deployments, or a less serious issue that is
> specific to Windows 10.
>
> IMHO the agent code needs to be thoroughly debugged, as:
>   i) some events are forwarded correctly;
>  ii) some have field names removed (which makes it very difficult to decode
> for any information other than what is in the OSSEC header); and
> iii) some have important security information completely chopped off the
> message, that is in addition to missing field labels.
>
> On Windows 10, I can confirm (not an exhaustive list):
>   i) The integrity of event IDs 4624, 4625, 4634, 4656~4663, 4688, 4689 is
> preserved.
>  ii) Event IDs 5140 and 4703 are forwarded without field labels (there are
> certainly others).
> iii) Eventchannel logs other than the three standard event logs have no
> field labels, and are emptied of important security content.
>
> Steps to reproduce on any recent flavor of Windows:
>
> 1) From the Group Policy Editor turn on AppLocker in Audit mode, and
> temporarily turn on all auditing in Security.
>
> 2) Configure the agent to collect AppLocker logs (This is for Windows 10,
> the log names differ for Windows 7):
>
> In /var/ossec/etc/shared/agent.conf
>
> <agent_config name="AgentName">
>   <localfile>
>     <log_format>eventchannel</log_format>
>     <location>Microsoft-Windows-AppLocker/EXE and DLL</location>
>   </localfile>
>   <localfile>
>     <log_format>eventchannel</log_format>
>     <location>Microsoft-Windows-AppLocker/MSI and Script</location>
>   </localfile>
>   <localfile>
>     <log_format>eventchannel</log_format>
>     <location>Microsoft-Windows-AppLocker/Packaged app-Deployment</location>
>   </localfile>
>   <localfile>
>     <log_format>eventchannel</log_format>
>     <location>Microsoft-Windows-AppLocker/Packaged app-execution</location>
>   </localfile>
> </agent_config>
>
> 3) Set the Windows agent to debug mode in internal_options.conf in the
> ossec-agent installation directory.
>
> 4) Restart the agent (net stop "OSSEC HIDS" then net start "OSSEC HIDS", or
> use the agent control GUI, or Services .msc to bounce the agent).
>
> 5) Examine events in the ossec.log file inside the OSSEC-agent installation
> directory.
>
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