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How to extract Target Account Name or Subject Account Name Security ID field from Windows Security Log?

erictodor
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I'm searching on Windows Security Auditing logs and the Security_ID field but when I do, I'm realizing that there is a section for Subject and Target Account. I want to be able to extract each into its own unique field so I can search on one or the other. Here's a sample event log. Right now, both account_1 and account_2 would be in a field called Security_ID and I need to split the two. Thanks!

LogName=Security
SourceName=Microsoft Windows security auditing.
EventCode=4738
EventType=0
Type=Information
ComputerName=server.domain.com
TaskCategory=User Account Management
OpCode=Info
RecordNumber=00000000
Keywords=Audit Success
Message=A user account was changed.

    Subject:
        Security ID:        DOMAIN\account_1
        Account Name:       account_1
        Account Domain:     DOMAIN
        Logon ID:       0000000

    Target Account:
        Security ID:        DOMAIN\account_2
        Account Name:       account_2
        Account Domain:     DOMAIN
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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi erictodor,
you have to use a multi line regex, something like this:

(?ms)Target Account:.*Security ID:\s+(?<Security_ID>[^ ]*)

you can test it at https://regex101.com/r/ZGJi2D/1

Bye.
Giuseppe

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jtitus3
Explorer

|eval name1=mvindex(Account_Name,0)
|eval name2=mvindex(Account_Name,1)

gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi erictodor,
you have to use a multi line regex, something like this:

(?ms)Target Account:.*Security ID:\s+(?<Security_ID>[^ ]*)

you can test it at https://regex101.com/r/ZGJi2D/1

Bye.
Giuseppe

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