Event ID 4 — process: payload.

Provider: OpenSSH
Channel: Operational
Level: Informational

Message #

%1: %2

Fields #

Name	Description
`process` UnicodeString	—
`payload` UnicodeString	—

Example Event #

{
  "system": {
    "provider": "OpenSSH",
    "guid": "C4B57D35-0636-4BC3-A262-370F249F9802",
    "event_source_name": "",
    "event_id": 4,
    "version": 0,
    "level": 4,
    "task": 0,
    "opcode": 0,
    "keywords": 4611686018427387904,
    "time_created": "2023-10-25T22:56:14.223049+00:00",
    "event_record_id": 40,
    "correlation": {},
    "execution": {
      "process_id": 3136,
      "thread_id": 3384
    },
    "channel": "OpenSSH/Operational",
    "computer": "WinDevEval",
    "security": {
      "user_id": "S-1-5-18"
    }
  },
  "event_data": {
    "process": "sshd",
    "payload": "Received signal 8; terminating."
  },
  "message": ""
}

Detection Rules #

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Sigma # view in reference

OpenSSH Server Listening On Socket source medium: Detects scenarios where an attacker enables the OpenSSH server and server starts to listening on SSH socket.

References #

Example event sourced from https://github.com/NextronSystems/evtx-baseline