Failed logon attempts in authpriv

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Identifies failed logon attempts from unknown users in Syslog authpriv logs. The unknown user means the account that tried to log in isn't provisioned on the machine. A few hits could indicate someone attempting to access a machine they aren't authorized to access. If there are many of hits, especially from outside your network, it could indicate a brute force attack. Default threshold for logon attempts is 15.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Syslog
ID e7ec9fa6-e7f7-41ed-a34b-b956837a3ee6
Severity Medium
Kind Scheduled
Tactics CredentialAccess
Techniques T1110
Required Connectors Syslog, SyslogAma
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Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Selection Criteria Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
Syslog Facility == "authpriv"
SyslogMessage has "authentication failure"
SyslogMessage has "uid=0"
SyslogMessage has "user unknown"
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