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How to blacklist security events by regex?

AL3Z
Builder

Hi all,


I'm attempting to exclude specific undesired data from the security logs. Is there a way to minimize the number of items on the exclusion list, considering that we can only add up to 10 items to the blacklist due to limitations. Is there a possibility of consolidating the blacklist by, for example, appending a "|" (pipe) at the end of each blacklisted item, thereby reducing the total number of entries in the blacklist while still achieving the desired exclusion?

blacklist1 = EventCode="4662" Message="Object Type:(?!\s*(groupPolicyContainer|computer|user))"
blacklist2 = EventCode="4648|5145|4799|5447|4634|5156|4663|4656|5152|5157|4658|4673|4661|4690|4932|4933|5158|4957|5136|4674|4660|4670|5058|5061|4985|4965"
blacklist3 = EventCode="4688" Message="(?:New Process Name:).+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunkd.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\btool.exe)"
blacklist4 = EventCode="4688" Message="(?:New Process Name:).+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk-winprintmon.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk-powershell.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk-regmon.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk-netmon.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk-admon.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk-MonitorNoHandle.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk-winevtlog.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk-perfmon.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk-wmi.exe)|.+(?:SplunkUniversalForwarder\\bin\\splunk\-winhostinfo\.exe)"
blacklist5 = EventCode="4688" Message="(?:Process Command Line:).+(?:system32\\SearchFilterHost.exe)|.+(?:find/i)|.+(?:WINDOWS\\system32\\conhost.exe)"
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes, what you describe is allowed as long as the text after the '=' is a valid regular expression.

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AL3Z
Builder

Hi,  My ask is like can we adjust these regex under one or more blacklist so that we can add few more regex for limitation issue like 10 is max.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I believe I already said you can do that.

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