I had previously given little credence to this log but realised it can be used to determine a whole wealth of useful information. I’m sure this isn’t new to most practised Unix beards but for those who aren’t aware, there’s a really great little log file called daily.out in /var/log. I’ve spent a little bit of time digging through the log files on my MacBook (Mojave 10.14.2).
This has obviously given me lots of great inspiration on how to negotiate Mac analysis in general and to take a closer look at some of those system files that we covered in training. I recently attended the awesome SANS DFIR, Mac and iOS Forensics and Incident Response course with Sarah Edwards. When paired with 4648 Security events and other remote computer RDP logs, this can show both attempted or successful connection and authentication to a remote (target) computer. This log may also persist longer than other logs too, where a Security log may only cover a days worth of activity, you may find months worth of evidence in this log. This means while an attacker may not have successfully connected via RDP to another computer, we may still see evidence of their attempts. The great thing is, event 1024 entries will be created whether a session is connects or not.
This event ID appears (in testing) to be generated when a user initiates an RDP connection using the RDP client MSTSC.exe in Windows by pressing ‘connect’. Whether IP or hostname display here, will depend on what is entered in “Computer” files in the GUI for remote desktop. “RDP ClientActiveX is trying to connect to the server (IP.ADDRESS OR HOSTNAME)” In built ActiveX controls allow an administrator to configure the RDP user experience by providing scriptable interfaces and can allow embedding RDP ActiveX control in web pages and configuring URL security zones, as a couple of examples.Įvent ID 1024 which contains the following message: In particular, lateral movement can be one of the hardest things to identify when investigating network based intrusions.Įvent ID 1024 in log file Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RDPClient%4Operational.evtx is an event that can sometimes be overlooked and it relates specifically to ActiveX controls in remote desktop. Respond to each of the questions below.As i’m sure i’ve mentioned before, event logs are a great source of evidence when performing incident response.
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