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Track Changes to IP Configuration? RJ 04-06-2006
Posted by RJ on April 6, 2006, 9:04 pm
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Can you track changes to the IP address / subnet mask / gateway, etc.
on a Win2003 server? Is there an auditing setting that will do this, and would
it show
up in Event Viewer.

We have some servers that the subnet mask is getting changed on,
(static IP addresses) and we need to track down what is causing/doing this.

Thanks.



Posted by Steven L Umbach on April 6, 2006, 11:36 pm
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You could enable auditing of object access and then audit the registry key
for that adapter for success for set key value and object access events such
as 560,562, and 567 will show in the security log when that happens but it
will not show what value was changed though it would show a user name [could
be system or both] and times that it happened. Below is what you could
expect to find when a value is changed and note the three events have the
same timestamp and handle ID and should be looked at as a set. The computer
will need to be rebooted after enabling auditing on a registry key [from
what my experience shows] for it to start working. Audit under
currentcontrolset. You can use the free Event Comb from Microsoft to parse
security logs for event IDs and text strings. In this case such a text
string could be Access Mask: Set key value. That may give you something to
start with. You can use the command net config server to find the adapter ID
as shown in the registry as shown under object name in Event ID 560 below.
It may also help enabling auditing of process tracking to see if you can
find a process that happened at a time just before the registry change that
could be responsible for the change if it was not done by user interaction.
You will need to increase the size of your security log quite a bit from
default settings if you have not done so yet. I would also check the servers
for any apparent rouge processes running with free tools from SysInternals
such as Process Explorer and do malware scans if you have not done so
lately.--- Steve

Event Type: Success Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Object Access
Event ID: 560
Date: 4/6/2006
Time: 9:34:43 PM
User: STEVE-XP\Steve
Computer: STEVE-XP
Description:
Object Open:
Object Server: Security
Object Type: Key
Object Name:
\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\
Handle ID: 1600
Operation ID:
Process ID: 1404
Image File Name: D:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
Primary User Name: Steve
Primary Domain: STEVE-XP
Primary Logon ID: (0x0,0xD7FA)
Client User Name: -
Client Domain: -
Client Logon ID: -
Accesses: READ_CONTROL
Set key value
Create sub-key

Privileges: -
Restricted Sid Count: 0


For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


Event Type: Success Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Object Access
Event ID: 567
Date: 4/6/2006
Time: 9:34:43 PM
User: STEVE-XP\Steve
Computer: STEVE-XP
Description:
Object Access Attempt:
Object Server: Security
Handle ID: 1600
Object Type: Key
Process ID: 1404
Image File Name: D:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
Access Mask: Set key value



For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Success Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Object Access
Event ID: 562
Date: 4/6/2006
Time: 9:34:43 PM
User: STEVE-XP\Steve
Computer: STEVE-XP
Description:
Handle Closed:
Object Server: Security
Handle ID: 1600
Process ID: 1404
Image File Name: D:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe


For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.




> Can you track changes to the IP address / subnet mask / gateway, etc.
> on a Win2003 server? Is there an auditing setting that will do this, and
> would it show
> up in Event Viewer.
>
> We have some servers that the subnet mask is getting changed on,
> (static IP addresses) and we need to track down what is causing/doing
> this.
>
> Thanks.
>
>



Posted by RJ on April 7, 2006, 7:03 am
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Great Info ... Thank-you very much !
It is a little more convoluted than I hoped for, but it
should do the trick.



> You could enable auditing of object access and then audit the registry key for
that adapter for
> success for set key value and object access events such as 560,562, and 567
will show in the
> security log when that happens but it will not show what value was changed
though it would show a
> user name [could be system or both] and times that it happened. Below is what
you could expect to
> find when a value is changed and note the three events have the same timestamp
and handle ID and
> should be looked at as a set. The computer will need to be rebooted after
enabling auditing on a
> registry key [from what my experience shows] for it to start working. Audit
under
> currentcontrolset. You can use the free Event Comb from Microsoft to parse
security logs for
> event IDs and text strings. In this case such a text string could be Access
Mask: Set key value.
> That may give you something to start with. You can use the command net config
server to find the
> adapter ID as shown in the registry as shown under object name in Event ID 560
below. It may also
> help enabling auditing of process tracking to see if you can find a process
that happened at a
> time just before the registry change that could be responsible for the change
if it was not done
> by user interaction. You will need to increase the size of your security log
quite a bit from
> default settings if you have not done so yet. I would also check the servers
for any apparent
> rouge processes running with free tools from SysInternals such as Process
Explorer and do malware
> scans if you have not done so lately.--- Steve
>
> Event Type: Success Audit
> Event Source: Security
> Event Category: Object Access
> Event ID: 560
> Date: 4/6/2006
> Time: 9:34:43 PM
> User: STEVE-XP\Steve
> Computer: STEVE-XP
> Description:
> Object Open:
> Object Server: Security
> Object Type: Key
> Object Name:
>
\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\
> Handle ID: 1600
> Operation ID:
> Process ID: 1404
> Image File Name: D:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
> Primary User Name: Steve
> Primary Domain: STEVE-XP
> Primary Logon ID: (0x0,0xD7FA)
> Client User Name: -
> Client Domain: -
> Client Logon ID: -
> Accesses: READ_CONTROL
> Set key value
> Create sub-key
>
> Privileges: -
> Restricted Sid Count: 0
>
>
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
>
> Event Type: Success Audit
> Event Source: Security
> Event Category: Object Access
> Event ID: 567
> Date: 4/6/2006
> Time: 9:34:43 PM
> User: STEVE-XP\Steve
> Computer: STEVE-XP
> Description:
> Object Access Attempt:
> Object Server: Security
> Handle ID: 1600
> Object Type: Key
> Process ID: 1404
> Image File Name: D:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
> Access Mask: Set key value
>
>
>
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
> Event Type: Success Audit
> Event Source: Security
> Event Category: Object Access
> Event ID: 562
> Date: 4/6/2006
> Time: 9:34:43 PM
> User: STEVE-XP\Steve
> Computer: STEVE-XP
> Description:
> Handle Closed:
> Object Server: Security
> Handle ID: 1600
> Process ID: 1404
> Image File Name: D:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
>
>
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
>
>
>
>> Can you track changes to the IP address / subnet mask / gateway, etc.
>> on a Win2003 server? Is there an auditing setting that will do this, and
would it show
>> up in Event Viewer.
>>
>> We have some servers that the subnet mask is getting changed on,
>> (static IP addresses) and we need to track down what is causing/doing this.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
>



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