Event ID 4723 — An attempt was made to change an account's password.

Provider: Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
Channel: Security
Audit Policy: Account Management → User Account Management
Collection Priority: Recommended (Palantir, others)
Opcode: Info

Description

An attempt was made to change an account's password.

Message #

An attempt was made to change an account's password.

Subject:
	Security ID: %4
	Account Name: %5
	Account Domain: %6
	Logon ID: %7

Target Account:
	Security ID: %3
	Account Name: %1
	Account Domain: %2

Additional Information:
	Privileges		%8

Fields #

Name	Description
`Account_Name`	[Target Account] Account Name.
`Account_Domain`	[Target Account] Account Domain.
`Security_ID`	[Target Account] Security ID.
`Security_ID`	[Subject] Security ID.
`Account_Name`	[Subject] Account Name.
`Account_Domain`	[Subject] Account Domain.
`Logon_ID`	[Subject] Logon ID.

Example Event #

{
  "system": {
    "provider": "Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing",
    "guid": "54849625-5478-4994-A5BA-3E3B0328C30D",
    "event_source_name": "",
    "event_id": 4723,
    "version": 0,
    "level": 0,
    "task": 13824,
    "opcode": 0,
    "keywords": 9227875636482146304,
    "time_created": "2021-12-04T22:47:47.872773Z",
    "event_record_id": 233289145,
    "correlation": {
      "#attributes": {
        "ActivityID": "D96638DA-E4F9-0001-F038-66D9F9E4D701"
      }
    },
    "execution": {
      "process_id": 596,
      "thread_id": 3492
    },
    "channel": "Security",
    "computer": "rootdc1.offsec.lan",
    "security": {
      "user_id": ""
    }
  },
  "event_data": {
    "TargetUserName": "hacker2",
    "TargetDomainName": "OFFSEC",
    "TargetSid": "S-1-5-21-4230534742-2542757381-3142984815-1242",
    "SubjectUserSid": "S-1-5-21-4230534742-2542757381-3142984815-1111",
    "SubjectUserName": "admmig",
    "SubjectDomainName": "OFFSEC",
    "SubjectLogonId": "0x10e7c4430",
    "PrivilegeList": "-"
  }
}