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Event ID 5379 — Credential Manager credentials were read.

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

Description

Credential Manager credentials were read.

Message #

Credential Manager credentials were read.

Subject:
	Security ID: %1
	Account Name: %2
	Account Domain: %3
	Logon ID: %4
	Read Operation: %8

This event occurs when a user performs a read operation on stored credentials in Credential Manager.

Fields #

NameDescription
SubjectUserSid SID[Subject] Security ID
SubjectUserName UnicodeString[Subject] Account Name
SubjectDomainName UnicodeString[Subject] Account Domain
SubjectLogonId HexInt64[Subject] Logon ID
TargetName UnicodeString—
Type UInt32—
CountOfCredentialsReturned UInt32—
ReadOperation UnicodeString[Subject] Read Operation
Known values
%%8099
Read Credential
%%8100
Enumerate Credentials
%%8101
Read Domain Credentials
%%8102
Find Best Credential
%%8103
Read By Token Handle
ReturnCode UInt32—
ProcessCreationTime FILETIME—
ClientProcessId UInt32—

Example Event #

{
  "system": {
    "provider": "Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing",
    "guid": "54849625-5478-4994-A5BA-3E3B0328C30D",
    "event_source_name": "",
    "event_id": 5379,
    "version": 0,
    "level": 0,
    "task": 13824,
    "opcode": 0,
    "keywords": 9232379236109516800,
    "time_created": "2023-11-06T06:25:40.049147+00:00",
    "event_record_id": 2888,
    "correlation": {
      "ActivityID": "F590C418-1079-0001-5BC5-90F57910DA01"
    },
    "execution": {
      "process_id": 808,
      "thread_id": 896
    },
    "channel": "Security",
    "computer": "WinDev2310Eval",
    "security": {
      "user_id": ""
    }
  },
  "event_data": {
    "SubjectUserSid": "S-1-5-18",
    "SubjectUserName": "WINDEV2310EVAL$",
    "SubjectDomainName": "WORKGROUP",
    "SubjectLogonId": "0x3e7",
    "TargetName": "WindowsLive:target=virtualapp/didlogical",
    "Type": 0,
    "CountOfCredentialsReturned": 0,
    "ReadOperation": "%%8100",
    "ReturnCode": 3221226021,
    "ProcessCreationTime": "2023-11-06T06:25:38.635483Z",
    "ClientProcessId": 1612
  },
  "message": ""
}

Community Notes #

Credential Manager credentials were read. Large numbers of reads may indicate automated credential theft.

Detection Rules #

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