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Windows event log · Security5154 The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted an application or service to listen on a port for incoming connections

This event documents each time WFP allows a program to begin listening on a TCP or UDP port for incoming connections and documents the program, port and filter that allowed it.

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

Fields EvtxECmd extracts

5 columns in the EvtxECmd CSV

  • ExecutableInfo%Application%
    • %Application% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="Application"]
  • PayloadData1Source: %SourceAddress%:%SourcePort%
    • %SourceAddress% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="SourceAddress"]
    • %SourcePort% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="SourcePort"]
  • PayloadData2Protocol: %Protocol%
    • %Protocol% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="Protocol"]
  • PayloadData3PID: %ProcessId%
    • %ProcessId% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="ProcessId"]
  • PayloadData4LayerName: %LayerName%
    • %LayerName% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="LayerName"]

Value lookups

Codes that EvtxECmd turns into text

Protocol

1
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
3
Gateway-Gateway Protocol (GGP)
6
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
8
Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)
12
PARC Universal Packet Protocol (PUP)
17
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
20
Host Monitoring Protocol (HMP)
27
Reliable Datagram Protocol (RDP)
46
Reservation Protocol (RSVP) QoS
47
General Routing Encapsulation (PPTP data over GRE)
50
Encapsulation Security Payload (ESP) IPSec
51
Authentication Header (AH) IPSec
66
MIT Remote Virtual Disk (RVD)
88
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
89
OSPF Open Shortest Path First

LayerName

%%14597
Transport
%%14601
ICMP Error
%%14608
Resource Assignment
%%14609
Listen
%%14610
Receive/Accept
%%14611
Connect

Sample event

Event XML from the map file

<Event>
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing" Guid="54849625-5478-4994-a5ba-3e3b0328c30d"/>
    <EventID>5154</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>0</Level>
    <Task>12810</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8020000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-12-06 07:35:44.3515332"/>
    <EventRecordID>173889</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation/>
    <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="10016"/>
    <Channel>Security</Channel>
    <Computer>1337-H4x0r</Computer>
    <Security/>
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="ProcessId">728</Data>
    <Data Name="Application">\device\harddiskvolume3\windows\system32\services.exe</Data>
    <Data Name="SourceAddress">::</Data>
    <Data Name="SourcePort">49669</Data>
    <Data Name="Protocol">6</Data>
    <Data Name="FilterRTID">0</Data>
    <Data Name="LayerName">%%14609</Data>
    <Data Name="LayerRTID">42</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

References

3 links

Source: evtx/Maps/Security_Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing_5154.map(opens in new tab) by Jason Ballard and contributors(opens in new tab), MIT License(opens in new tab)