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Windows event log ยท Security4781 The name of an account was changed

  • Security
  • 5 fields
  • Security.evtx
  • Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing

Fields EvtxECmd extracts

5 columns in the EvtxECmd CSV

  • UserName%domain%\%user% (%sid%)
    • %domain% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="SubjectDomainName"]
    • %user% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="SubjectUserName"]
    • %sid% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="SubjectUserSid"]
  • PayloadData1OldTargetUserName: %OldTargetUserName%
    • %OldTargetUserName% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="OldTargetUserName"]
  • PayloadData2NewTargetUserName: %NewTargetUserName%
    • %NewTargetUserName% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="NewTargetUserName"]
  • PayloadData3TargetDomainName: %TargetDomainName%
    • %TargetDomainName% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="TargetDomainName"]
  • PayloadData4TargetSid: %TargetSid%
    • %TargetSid% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="TargetSid"]

Sample event

Event XML from the map file

<Event>
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing" Guid="54856625-5478-7794-a5ba-3e3b0328c30d"/>
    <EventID>4781</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>0</Level>
    <Task>13784</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8020000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2020-10-02 02:02:00.0351195"/>
    <EventRecordID>210012591</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation ActivityID="f145a4ae-985f-0000-a1a4-61h15f98d601"/>
    <Execution ProcessID="774" ThreadID="768"/>
    <Channel>Security</Channel>
    <Computer>hostname</Computer>
    <Security/>
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="OldTargetUserName">Administrators</Data>
    <Data Name="NewTargetUserName">Administrators</Data>
    <Data Name="TargetDomainName">Builtin</Data>
    <Data Name="TargetSid">S-1-5-32-123</Data>
    <Data Name="SubjectUserSid">S-1-5-18</Data>
    <Data Name="SubjectUserName">username</Data>
    <Data Name="SubjectDomainName">domain</Data>
    <Data Name="SubjectLogonId">0x3E7</Data>
    <Data Name="PrivilegeList">-</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

References

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Source: evtx/Maps/Security_Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing_4781.map(opens in new tab) by Andrew Rathbun and contributors(opens in new tab), MIT License(opens in new tab)