How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 or RHEL 7
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This document provides instructions on how to install and configure auditing on CentOS 7. It describes how to install the audit packages, add and manage audit rules to monitor specific files and directories, perform searches of the audit logs, and generate various audit reports. Commands are provided to list rules, add rules to watch files and their permissions, delete rules, search the logs by criteria like file, user, or group, and produce summary reports on authentication attempts and logins. System calls are also mapped to their numeric identifiers.
![How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7
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Files
audit.rules Rules defined is utilized by auditctl
auditd.conf Configuration file of auditd daemon
Auditctl - Attributes / Parameters
Audit control tool is managed by rules and the parameters associated to each rule.
Audit Control - Rules Table
-w This parameter will add / insert a watch for the file system object at path.
-W This parameter will remove a watch for the file system object at path.
-f [0..2] Set failure flag which can be set between 0 - 2 wherein;
0=silent 1=printk 2=panic
-e [0..2] Set enabled flag which can be set between 0 - 2 wherein;
0= disable auditing 1=enable auditing 2= lock the audit configuration
-k Key
-p [rwxa] this parameter describes the permission access type that a file system watch will trigger on
rwxa; see Permissions Table
-D Delete all audit rules
Audit Control - Permissions Table
r Read permission; if a file is opened for reading
w write permission; if a file is opened for writing
x execute permission; if a file is opened for execution
a attribute permission; if a file attribute is changed
Audit Control - Actions
never No audit records will be generated. This can be used to suppress event generation.
always Allocate an audit context, always fill it in at syscall entry time, and always write out a
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How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 or RHEL 7
- 1. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 i | P a g e Table of Contents Overview.......................................................................................................................................................1 Applies To......................................................................................................................................................1 Pre-requisites................................................................................................................................................1 Install Audit Packages ...................................................................................................................................1 Components, Tools and Configuration Files.................................................................................................1 Kernel........................................................................................................................................................1 Binaries......................................................................................................................................................1 Files ...........................................................................................................................................................2 Auditctl - Attributes / Parameters ................................................................................................................2 Audit Control - Rules Table .......................................................................................................................2 Audit Control - Permissions Table.............................................................................................................2 Audit Control - Actions..............................................................................................................................2 Manage Audit Rules......................................................................................................................................3 List Audit Rules..........................................................................................................................................3 Add Audit Rules.........................................................................................................................................3 Add Audit Rule – Shadow File...............................................................................................................3 Add Audit Rule – Password File ............................................................................................................4 Add Audit Rule – SSH Config File...........................................................................................................4 Add Audit Rule – hosts File ...................................................................................................................4 Add Audit Rule – Directory ...................................................................................................................4 Audit Delete Rules.....................................................................................................................................5 Delete Rules – All Rules.........................................................................................................................5 Delete Rules – By Key............................................................................................................................5 Delete Rules – Matching Rule...............................................................................................................6 Audit Query / Search.....................................................................................................................................6 Audit Query – By File.................................................................................................................................6 Audit Query – By key.................................................................................................................................7 Audit Query – By Exit Code.......................................................................................................................7 Audit Query – By Executable ....................................................................................................................8 Audit Query – By UserID ...........................................................................................................................8 Audit Query – By User LoginID..................................................................................................................9
- 2. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 ii | P a g e Audit Query – By GroupID.........................................................................................................................9 Audit Query – By UUID..............................................................................................................................9 Audit Query – By Hostname....................................................................................................................10 Audit Reports ..............................................................................................................................................10 Audit Report – Summary.........................................................................................................................10 Audit Report – Report Authentication Attempts................................................................................11 Audit Report – Report Authentication Failed Attempts .....................................................................11 Audit Report – Report Login Success Attempts..................................................................................12 Audit Report – Report Login Failed Attempts.....................................................................................12 Audit Report – Report Login Failed Attempts.....................................................................................12 Audit Report – Report Filter by Timestamp........................................................................................13 Audit Report – Report Find Syscall......................................................................................................14 Different System Calls and its Mapping..................................................................................................14 ausyscall 2 ...........................................................................................................................................14 ausyscall 188 .......................................................................................................................................14 ausyscall 191 .......................................................................................................................................14 Alternate Methods – Aureport ...................................................................................................................15
- 3. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 1 | P a g e Overview It is always a good to have a look various logs on your server to determine who has logged in successfully and who has had failed attempts at logging in. More importantly with a server is connected to the public IP address. It also helps administrator to keep trail of administrator activities. Applies To CentOS 7, RHEL 7 Pre-requisites In order to run the commands described in this guide; packages that has to be installed. audit audit-libs Install Audit Packages By default audit packages are installed, in case you need to install run the below command; audit-libs is a dependency package. yum install audit audit-libs -y Components, Tools and Configuration Files There are three major components for Auditing on a box. Kernel audit Hooks into the kernel to capture events and delivers them to auditd daemon Binaries auditd A daemon to capture events and store them in auditd.log file auditctl Audit tool to configure auditd on the server audispd Daemon to multiplex events aureport Reporting tool which reads from auditd.log file ausearch Looks-up events in auditd.log file autrace Using audit component in kernel to trace binaries aulast Similar to last, but utilizes audit framework aulastlog Similar to lastlog, but again utilizes audit framework ausyscall Map syscall ID and name auvirt Displaying audit information regarding virtual machines
- 4. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 2 | P a g e Files audit.rules Rules defined is utilized by auditctl auditd.conf Configuration file of auditd daemon Auditctl - Attributes / Parameters Audit control tool is managed by rules and the parameters associated to each rule. Audit Control - Rules Table -w This parameter will add / insert a watch for the file system object at path. -W This parameter will remove a watch for the file system object at path. -f [0..2] Set failure flag which can be set between 0 - 2 wherein; 0=silent 1=printk 2=panic -e [0..2] Set enabled flag which can be set between 0 - 2 wherein; 0= disable auditing 1=enable auditing 2= lock the audit configuration -k Key -p [rwxa] this parameter describes the permission access type that a file system watch will trigger on rwxa; see Permissions Table -D Delete all audit rules Audit Control - Permissions Table r Read permission; if a file is opened for reading w write permission; if a file is opened for writing x execute permission; if a file is opened for execution a attribute permission; if a file attribute is changed Audit Control - Actions never No audit records will be generated. This can be used to suppress event generation. always Allocate an audit context, always fill it in at syscall entry time, and always write out a record at syscall exit time.
- 5. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 3 | P a g e Manage Audit Rules One of the main purpose of audit rule(s) is to keep track of files that have been read, modified or executed by a user are being monitored; which will ensure engineers to perform administrative actions that their role defines or requires. List Audit Rules First up, before you configure a new rule it’s always a good idea to list of audit rules that are already configured. To know rules configure run the below command, the command will list rules defined from the file “/etc/audit/audit.rules”. auditctl -l Add Audit Rules In order to add a watch / audit files, you need to add a rule, we will add few audit rules. Add Audit Rule – Shadow File To audit password shadow file run the below command with key “shadow-file”; we will watch for permissions “r,w,x,a”. auditctl -w /etc/shadow -k shadow-file -p rwxa
- 6. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 4 | P a g e Add Audit Rule – Password File To audit password file run the below command with key “password-file”; we will watch for permissions “r,w,a”. auditctl -w /etc/passwd -p war -k password-file Add Audit Rule – SSH Config File To audit SSH daemon main configuration file run the below command with key “sshconfig”; we will watch for permissions “r,w,a,x”. auditctl -w /etc/ssh/sshd_config -p rwax -k sshconfig-file Add Audit Rule – hosts File To audit hosts file run the below command with key “hosts-file”; we will watch for permissions “w,a”. auditctl -w /etc/hosts -p wa -k hosts-file Add Audit Rule – Directory If you would like to watch a specific directory on a host, run the command below auditctl -w /etc/security -k "/etc/secturity" Note: it’s a good idea to add a rule with “key”, because it helps in search by a show rules based on key.
- 7. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 5 | P a g e Audit Delete Rules If the host or a rule(s) that are no longer required to be audited / watched. You need delete the audit rules that are no longer required. Delete Rules – All Rules At times you would want to delete all rules defined run the below command, this command will remove all rules defined in “audit.rules” file. auditctl -D Delete Rules – By Key To delete rules based on the key run the below command, this command will remove all rules defined in “audit.rules” file. auditctl -D -key password-file
- 8. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 6 | P a g e Delete Rules – Matching Rule To delete matching rule, run the below command, this command will remove all rules defined in “audit.rules” file. You have to match the actual rule to remove it. auditctl -W /etc/passwd -p rwa -k password-file Audit Query / Search Ausearch is audit daemon query tool, there are many ways that you can perform different kind of audits. A few of them have been listed and shown here. Audit Query – By File Search for an events matching for the given filename. ausearch -f /etc/passwd
- 9. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 7 | P a g e Audit Query – By key Search for an events matching for the given key defined while creating the audit rules. ausearch -k password-file Audit Query – By Exit Code Search for an event matching the exit code. Exit codes can be interpreted in the error file “/usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h” ausearch -e 1
- 10. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 8 | P a g e Audit Query – By Executable Search for an event matching the executable, run the command below. ausearch -x ls Audit Query – By UserID Search for an events matching based on the user ID. ausearch -ui 1000
- 11. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 9 | P a g e Audit Query – By User LoginID Query for events matching for the user Login ID and display them. ausearch -ul 1000 Audit Query – By GroupID Query for events matching for the group id and display them. ausearch -gi 1000 Audit Query – By UUID Query for events matching for the UUID and display them. ausearch -uu 1000
- 12. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 10 | P a g e Audit Query – By Hostname Query for events matching for the hostname and display them. ausearch -hn vcptest Audit Reports It’s a tool that delivers audit summary reports of the audit system logs. Audit Report – Summary aureport –summary
- 13. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 11 | P a g e Audit Report – Report Authentication Attempts List all the events irrespective of success or failed. aureport -au Audit Report – Report Authentication Failed Attempts List all the events that have failed. aureport -au | grep "no "
- 14. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 12 | P a g e Audit Report – Report Login Success Attempts aureport --success -l Audit Report – Report Login Failed Attempts aureport --failed -l Audit Report – Report Login Failed Attempts aureport -m
- 15. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 13 | P a g e Audit Report – Report Filter by Timestamp aureport --start 09/20/2015 00:00:00 --end 09/21/2015 00:00:00
- 16. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 14 | P a g e Audit Report – Report Find Syscall For each command execution syscall is associated in the audit log. Run the command “ausearch gi 1000 - -just-one” Different System Calls and its Mapping ausyscall 2 Open ausyscall 188 setxattr ausyscall 191 getxattr
- 17. How To Install and Generate Audit Reports in CentOS 7 15 | P a g e Alternate Methods – Aureport cat /var/log/secure | grep 'sshd.*Failed' cat /var/log/secure | grep 'sshd.*opened' cat /var/log/secure | grep 'login.*tty'