On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:28 AM, James Whittington
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have seen several examples of decoders folks have written for IIS 7.
> I have tried out a couple of different ones yet each time the ossec-logtest
> stops at the windows-date-format decoder.
>
> Additionally one of the examples of an IIS 7 decoder is in a OSSEC bug
> "web-log category doesn't work"
> (https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/164).
>
> So I am left wondering if anyone is successfully decoding IIS logs on
> Windows 2008-2012 servers?
>
> I am currently running  OSSEC v2.7.1 , I see 2.8 is out but I didn't see
> anything in the release notes about updates to IIS logs?
>
> I would like to write some custom rules on post actions to specific urls but
> the windows-date-format decoder doesn't extract the correct fields that I
> need.
> Here is an example line and what I am seeing when I run a logtest on it:
>
> 2014-07-30 13:27:06 W3SVC1273337584 RD00155D43396D 10.207.230.34 POST
> /register - 443 - 120.138.126.238 HTTP/1.1
> Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.1)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/36.0.1985.125+Safari/537.36
> _ga=GA1.2.1301279074.1406725635;+_dc=1 https://www.cognitoforms.com/register
> www.cognitoforms.com 302 0 0 949 2509 3667
>
>
> **Phase 1: Completed pre-decoding.
>        full event: '2014-07-30 13:27:06 W3SVC1273337584 RD00155D43396D
> 10.207.230.34 POST /register - 443 - 120.138.126.238 HTTP/1.1
> Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.1)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/36.0.1985.125+Safari/537.36
> _ga=GA1.2.1301279074.1406725635;+_dc=1 https://www.cognitoforms.com/register
> www.cognitoforms.com 302 0 0 949 2509 3667'
>        hostname: 'monitor'
>        program_name: '(null)'
>        log: '2014-07-30 13:27:06 W3SVC1273337584 RD00155D43396D
> 10.207.230.34 POST /register - 443 - 120.138.126.238 HTTP/1.1
> Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.1)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/36.0.1985.125+Safari/537.36
> _ga=GA1.2.1301279074.1406725635;+_dc=1 https://www.cognitoforms.com/register
> www.cognitoforms.com 302 0 0 949 2509 3667'
>
> **Phase 2: Completed decoding.
>        decoder: 'windows-date-format'
>        url: '/register -'
>        srcip: '120.138.126.238'
>        id: '302'
>
> **Phase 3: Completed filtering (rules).
>        Rule id: '120000'
>        Level: '5'
>        Description: 'Registration Attempt'
> **Alert to be generated.
>
>
> I am trying to track registration activity to a web service and trigger a
> custom AR script if multiple registration attempts occur from the same
> source ip.
>
> If anyone would like to share their IIS decoders I would be most
> appreciative, I don't know why OSSEC doesn't have a user contributed
> exchange of decoders much like the nagios community used to have with custom
> plugins.
>

Because so few people contribute them? I find it odd as well, I
thought more people would want to help.

> Any thanks for any advice on decoding IIS.
>

Give me sample logs.

> James Whittington
>
>
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