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Field extraction from a Windows log

vagnet
Explorer

Hi Splunkers,

 

I have prepared a regex extraction using regex101 site, and now trying to extract "Failure Reason" as per below log but for some reason fails.

 

Where is the catch? Should be pretty simple but I am out of ideas now.

 

Search:

 

 

| from datamodel:"Authentication"."Insecure_Authentication" 
| search "*Failure*"
| rex  "Failure\sReason:\t\t(?<Failure_Reason>.*)\n"

 

 

Log:

 

ComputerName=ot.mydomain.com
TaskCategory=Logon
OpCode=Info
RecordNumber=41462650
Keywords=Audit Failure
Message=An account failed to log on.

Subject:
	Security ID:		NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
	Account Name:		usergeorge$
	Account Domain:		dm
	Logon ID:		0x3E7

Logon Type:			8

Account For Which Logon Failed:
	Security ID:		NULL SID
	Account Name:		george1$
	Account Domain:		mydomain.com

Failure Information:
	Failure Reason:		Unknown user name or bad password.
	Status:			0xC000006D
	Sub Status:		0xC000006A

Process Information:
	Caller Process ID:	0x2t20

 

 

Regards,

vagnet

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vagnet
Explorer

Hi,

 

The solution is to adjust the quotes on the data model. One easily missed I guess.

| from datamodel:"Authentication.Insecure_Authentication"
| rex field=_raw  "Failure\sReason:\t\t(?<Failure_Reason>.*)\s"

Regards,

Vagnet

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vagnet
Explorer

Hi,

 

The solution is to adjust the quotes on the data model. One easily missed I guess.

| from datamodel:"Authentication.Insecure_Authentication"
| rex field=_raw  "Failure\sReason:\t\t(?<Failure_Reason>.*)\s"

Regards,

Vagnet

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vhharanpositka
Path Finder

Hi Vagnet

 

You can try this @vagnet ,

 

| from datamodel:"Authentication"."Insecure_Authentication"
| search "*Failure*"
| rex field=_raw  "Failure\sReason:\t\t(?<Failure_Reason>.*)\n"

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vagnet
Explorer

Thanks @vhharanpositka . Same results though

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vhharanpositka
Path Finder

Hi @vagnet 

 

This is working for me.

vhharanpositka_0-1635520409205.png

 

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vagnet
Explorer

Thanks @vhharanpositka . It works using index searching, but when searching inside the datamodel. This is what I am trying to figure out.

 

Regards,

Vagnet

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