Searching for a specific order of events in Log Server

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Searching for a specific order of events in Log Server

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Hello,

I would like to know if there is a way to perform a search in Log Server that dictates if one specific event is found then look for another event to occur immediately after? Sort of an if this/than that search.

We're trying to find a way to search for a potential security vulnerability described in this article: https://thehackernews.com/2020/09/detec ... tical.html

It says to look for Windows event ID 4742 followed by or combined with event ID 4672 (the would involve the same SubjectUserName or Account Name.

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I also found this article: https://www.lares.com/blog/from-lares-l ... 2020-1472/

I'm having trouble searching for multiple event IDs at the same time and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. When I search them separately I get results, but when I search both I only get one or the other.
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Re: Searching for a specific order of events in Log Server

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There is no way to specifically have a single search trigger another
rferebee wrote:I'm having trouble searching for multiple event IDs at the same time and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. When I search them separately I get results, but when I search both I only get one or the other.
This should be able to be accomplished with something like

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EventID:4742 OR EventID:4672
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Re: Searching for a specific order of events in Log Server

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Ok, I'll try that. Thank you.
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rferebee wrote:Ok, I'll try that. Thank you.
No problem
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This thread can be locked. Thank you.
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rferebee wrote:This thread can be locked. Thank you.
Great!

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