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Sysmon Add-on for Linux unable to extract Data attribute from XML

att35
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Hi,

We are testing Splunk Add-on for Sysmon for Linux to ingest Sysmon data from Linux systems. Data ingestion and majority of the extractions are working fine, except the Data part.

 

<Data Name="FieldName">

 

 It appears that Splunk is completely skips over this.

We have Sysmon for Windows working as well and same attribute gets extracted just fine. Data format between Sysmon from Linux Vs Windows is identical, so are the transform stanza's in the TA's. Only difference I could see is that the field name in Windows is enclosed in single quotes where for Linux it is double quotes. Could this be causing the regex in TA to not work for Data ? Including some examples here. 

Sample Data from Linux Sysmon

 

<Event><System><Provider Name="Linux-Sysmon" Guid="{ff032593-a8d3-4f13-b0d6-01fc615a0f97}"/><EventID>3</EventID><Version>5</Version><Level>4</Level><Task>3</Task><Opcode>0</Opcode><Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2023-11-13T13:34:45.693615000Z"/><EventRecordID>140108</EventRecordID><Correlation/><Execution ProcessID="24493" ThreadID="24493"/><Channel>Linux-Sysmon/Operational</Channel><Computer>computername</Computer><Security UserId="0"/></System><EventData><Data Name="RuleName">-</Data><Data Name="UtcTime">2023-11-13 13:34:45.697</Data><Data Name="ProcessGuid">{ba131d2e-2a52-6550-285f-207366550000}</Data><Data Name="ProcessId">64284</Data><Data Name="Image">/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunkd</Data><Data Name="User">root</Data><Data Name="Protocol">tcp</Data><Data Name="Initiated">true</Data><Data Name="SourceIsIpv6">false</Data><Data Name="SourceIp">x.x.x.x</Data><Data Name="SourceHostname">-</Data><Data Name="SourcePort">60164</Data><Data Name="SourcePortName">-</Data><Data Name="DestinationIsIpv6">false</Data><Data Name="DestinationIp">x.x.x.x</Data><Data Name="DestinationHostname">-</Data><Data Name="DestinationPort">8089</Data><Data Name="DestinationPortName">-</Data></EventData></Event>

 

Sample data from Windows Sysmon

 

<Event xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event'><System><Provider Name='Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon' Guid='{5770385f-c22a-43e0-bf4c-06f5698ffbd9}'/><EventID>3</EventID><Version>5</Version><Level>4</Level><Task>3</Task><Opcode>0</Opcode><Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime='2023-11-13T13:26:31.064124600Z'/><EventRecordID>1571173614</EventRecordID><Correlation/><Execution ProcessID='2988' ThreadID='5720'/><Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational</Channel><Computer>computername</Computer><Security UserID='S-1-5-18'/></System><EventData><Data Name='RuleName'>-</Data><Data Name='UtcTime'>2023-11-13 13:26:13.591</Data><Data Name='ProcessGuid'>{f4558f15-1db6-654f-8400-000000007a00}</Data><Data Name='ProcessId'>4320</Data><Data Name='Image'>C:\..\..\image.exe</Data><Data Name='User'>NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM</Data><Data Name='Protocol'>tcp</Data><Data Name='Initiated'>true</Data><Data Name='SourceIsIpv6'>false</Data><Data Name='SourceIp'>127.0.0.1</Data><Data Name='SourceHostname'>computername</Data><Data Name='SourcePort'>64049</Data><Data Name='SourcePortName'>-</Data><Data Name='DestinationIsIpv6'>false</Data><Data Name='DestinationIp'>127.0.0.1</Data><Data Name='DestinationHostname'>computername</Data><Data Name='DestinationPort'>4932</Data><Data Name='DestinationPortName'>-</Data></EventData></Event>

 

Transforms on both sides are also identical except the difference for single Vs double quotes.

 

Linux

[sysmon-data]
REGEX = <Data Name="(.*?)">(.*?)</Data>
FORMAT = $1::$2

Windows

[sysmon-data]
REGEX = <Data Name='(.*?)'>(.*?)</Data>
FORMAT = $1::$2

 

 Any clues on what could be causing Splunk to not extract Data attribute for Linux? Transforms for other elements such as Computer, Keywords are working fine, it just skips this Data part completely.

Thanks,

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