SIEM

Notable Event IDs to record that will help in forensics, if not exclicity in detection. Exlcudes those already included in existing Sigma rules.

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Security

EventID Description Filter
4647 User initiated logoff.  
4670 Permissions on an object were changed.  
4696 A primary token was assigned to process  
4700 A scheduled task was enabled.  
4703 A user right was adjusted.  
4705 A user right was removed  
4715 The audit policy (SACL) on an object was changed.  
4778 A session was reconnected to a Window Station.  
4779 A session was disconnected from a Window Station.  
4780 The ACL was set on accounts which are members of administrators groups.  
4793 The Password Policy Checking API was called.  
4801 The workstation was unlocked.  
4802 The screen saver was invoked  
4803 The screen saver was dismissed.  
4817 Auditing settings on object were changed.  
4885 The audit filter for Certificate Services changed.  
4890 The certificate manager settings for Certificate Services changed.  
4906 The CrashOnAuditFail value has changed.  
4907 Auditing settings on object changed  
4908 Special Groups Logon table modified  
4912 Per-User Audit Policy changed  
4951 A rule has been ignored because its major version number was not recognized by Windows Firewall.  
4952 Parts of a rule have been ignored because its minor version number was not recognized by Windows Firewall. The other parts of the rule will be enforced.  
4953 Windows Firewall ignored a rule because it could not be parsed.  
4956 Windows Firewall has changed the active profile.  
4957 Windows Firewall did not apply the following rule.  
4958 Windows Firewall did not apply the following rule because the rule referred to items not configured on this computer.  
4964 Special groups assigned to a new logon  
5027 Windows Firewall Service unable to retrieve the security policy from the local storage service will continue enforcing the current policy  
5028 Windows Firewall Service unable to parse the new security policy service will continue with currently enforced policy  
5029 Windows Firewall Service failed to initialize the driver service will continue to enforce the current policy  
5146 The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a packet.  
5158 The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted a bind to a local port.  
6145 One or more errors occurred while processing security policy in the group policy objects.  
6272 Network Policy Server granted access to a user  
6274 Network Policy Server discarded the request for a user  
6275 Network Policy Server discarded the accounting request for a user  

Security (Domain Controller Specific)

EventID Description Filter
4770 A Kerberos service ticket was renewed.  
4820 A Kerberos Ticket-granting-ticket (TGT) was denied because the device does not meet the access control restrictions  

System

EventID Description Filter
12 The operating system started at system time xxxx  
13 The operating system is shutting down at system time xxxx  
27 Network link is disconnected !source=Kernel-Boot
33 Network link has been established !source=Kernel-Boot
105 Power source change  
107 The system has resumed from sleep  

Microsoft-Windows-DNSServer/Audit

EventID Description Filter
541 The setting serverlevelplugindll on scope . has been set to $dll_path  

Microsoft-Windows-Forwarding/Operational

(All)

Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Operational

EventID Description Filter
307 Print Job Level 4

Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell-DesiredStateConfiguration-FileDownloadManager/Operational

(All)

Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Analytic

EventID Description
32867 PowerShell input object
32868 PowerShell output object

Microsoft-Windows-Powershell/Operational

EventID Description Filter
40961 PowerShell Console Starting  
40962 PowerShell Console Started  
24577 Powershell script ran  
8193, 8194 Session created  
8197 Session Closed  
53504 Records the authenticating user  

Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Core/Operational

EventID Description Filter
9707 Detects the start of the execution of a process from both the “Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run” and “Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce” registry keys with the full command line.  
9708 Detects when the aforementioned process finishes execution with the corresponding PID (Useful when the process is still running on the system).  

Microsoft-Windows-SmartCard-Audit/Authentication

(All)

Microsoft-Windows-SmbClient/Security

EventID Description
31001 Failed login to destination

Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

EventID Description
15 FileCreateStreamHash
18 PipeEvent (Pipe Connected)

Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational

EventID Description
200 Task Executed
201 Task Completed

Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Operational

EventID Description
1149 User authentication succeeded

Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational

EventID Description
22 Shell start notification received
23 Session logoff succeeded
24 Session has been disconnected
25 Session reconnection succeeded
39 Session has been disconnected by session
40 Session has been disconnected, reason code

Microsoft-Windows-TPM-WMI

EventID Description
513 TPM Owner Authorization information was backed up successfully to Active Directory Domain Services.
514 Failed to backup TPM Owner Authorization information to Active Directory Domain Services. Errorcode: %1

Microsoft-Windows-UniversalTelemetryClient/Operational

EventID Description
55 Indicates whether the computer has Internet or Not.

Microsoft-Windows-VHDMP-Operational

EventID Description
1 Triggers when you mount a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk).
2 Triggers when you unmount a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk).
12 Contains information about the type, path, handle count of the mounted device.

Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon/Operational

EventID Description
811 Triggers when a user logon to a machine. You can check for the “" subscriber notification in EID 811 to indicates that a user logged on via RDP.

Microsoft-Windows-WLAN-AutoConfig/Operational

EventID Description
8001 WLAN AutoConfig service has successfully connected to a wireless network.
8003 WLAN AutoConfig service has successfully disconnected from a wireless network.

Microsoft-Windows-WMI-Activity/Operational

EventID Description
5857 Provider started
5858 Provider error

Microsoft-Windows-WinRM/Operational

EventID Description
6 WSMan Session created
8 15, 16, 33 WSMan Session deinitialization
81 Processing Client Request
82 Entering the plugin
134 Sending response
91 Session Created
168 Authenticating attempt
169 Authentication success

DNS Server

EventID Description Filter
770 DNS Server plugin DLL has been loaded  

Windows PowerShell

EventID Description
400 Engine started
403 Engine stopped
800 Includes partial script code