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Translate Windows security descriptor to readable format

coenvandijk
Observer

Im working on using Splunk for Windows auditing. In events 4670, 4656 and 4663 one (or more) security descriptors are present.

These descriptors are very cryptic and look like D:(A;;GA;;;SY)(A;;RC;;;OW)(A;;GA;;;S-1-5-86-615999462-62705297-2911207457-59056572-3668589837)

I want to translate these (either at index, parse or searchtie) to a reable format. Is this possible? If so, how can I do this?

Thanks in advance,
Coen

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wenthold
Communicator

I think what you would wind up doing is breaking out each ACE and creating lookups for each of the different components. I think the quickest approach would be to extract each ACE, which will lead to the ACE field often being a multivalue field. Then use mvexpand which will then allow lookups against each of the ACE components. There number of ACEs in a security descriptor is variable, doing this in search is going to be somewhat complex.

Here's a link to a good breakdown of how each ACE is constructed and what the strings mean:

ACE strings on MSDN

Linked in the ACE strings page but easy to miss: ACE SID strings

And here's a decent (but old) blog post on deciphering security descriptors in this format that ties it all together:

MS SDD blog post

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coenvandijk
Observer

Thank your the answer.

I was allready afraid that I would need to do something like this. It would have been nice if the Splunk Windows TA would already do this automagically

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