Log Types: LinuxAudit2

Log Types: LinuxAudit2

Overview

Similar to LinuxAudit but in SNAREv2 format.

Collection

Snare Agent for Linux configured to send events in SNAREv2 format.

Sample Events

example.com        LinuxKAudit        3        {"Event":{"System":{"event":{"syscall":"fchownat","datetime":"1753664832"},"sequence":"13528406","uid":{"uid":"4294967295","name":"unknown"},"euid":{"euid":"0","name":"root"},"gid":{"gid":"0","name":"root"},"egid":{"egid":"0","name":"root"},"process":"\/data\/Snare\/SnareService","return":{"code":"0","status":"yes"},"name":"\/data\/SnareArchive\/2025-07-28\/10.10.10.10","arch":"unknown","TimeCreated":{"SystemTime":"2025-07-28T01:07:12.630130Z","LocalTime":"2025-07-28T10:37:12.630130+09:30"}},"Data":{"a0":"ffffffffffffff9c","a1":"c001281110","a2":"21","a3":"21","items":"1","ppid":"1","pid":"3407","uid":"0","suid":"0","fsuid":"0","sgid":"0","fsgid":"0","tty":"none","ses":"4294967295","comm":"SnareService","key":"obj-3-2","cwd":"\/","item":"0","inode":"9953702","dev":"fd:09","mode":"040750","ouid":"0","ogid":"0","rdev":"00:00","nametype":"NORMAL","cap_fp":"0000000000000000","cap_fi":"0000000000000000","cap_fe":"0","cap_fver":"0","proctitle":"\/data\/Snare\/SnareService"}}}

example.com        LinuxKAudit        1        {"Event":{"System":{"event":{"syscall":"kill","datetime":"1753664833"},"sequence":"13528447","uid":{"uid":"0","name":"root"},"euid":{"euid":"0","name":"root"},"gid":{"gid":"0","name":"root"},"egid":{"egid":"0","name":"root"},"process":"\/root\/.vscode-server\/bin\/019f4d1419fbc8219a181fab7892ebccf7ee29a2\/node","return":{"code":"0","status":"yes"},"name":"","arch":"unknown","TimeCreated":{"SystemTime":"2025-07-28T01:07:13.627331Z","LocalTime":"2025-07-28T10:37:13.627331+09:30"}},"Data":{"a0":"1377","a1":"0","a2":"0","a3":"8","items":"0","ppid":"4983","pid":"5327","uid":"0","suid":"0","fsuid":"0","sgid":"0","fsgid":"0","tty":"none","ses":"1","comm":"node","key":"obj-1-1","opid":"4983","oauid":"0","ouid":"0","oses":"1","ocomm":"node","proctitle":"2F726F6F742F2E7673636F64652D7365727665722F62696E2F303139663464313431396662633832313961313831666162373839326562636366376565323961322F6E6F6465002D2D646E732D726573756C742D6F726465723D697076346669727374002F726F6F742F2E7673636F64652D7365727665722F62696E2F303139"}}}

Fields

Field

Description

Field

Description

DATE

Event date, in the format YYYY-MM-DD

TIME

Event time, in the format HH:MM:SS

SYSTEM

The source system

TABLE

LinuxAudit2

DATETIME

Event date, in RFC3339 Nano format

EVENTID

Name of the event

UID

User ID of the user that started the process

UIDNAME

Name of the user referred in UID

EUID

User ID of the user the process is running on behalf of. For example, the user that the login user “sudoed” to. Also known as Effective User ID

EUIDNAME

Name of the user referred in EUID

GID

Group ID of the user referred in UID

GIDNAME

Name of the group referred in GID

EGID

Group ID of the user referred in EUID, also known as Effective Group ID

EGIDNAME

Name of the group referred in EGID

PROCESS

Name of the process that emitted the event

RETURNCODE

Return code of the event

RETURNSTATUS

Whether the event succeeded or not

SEQUENCE

Unique ID associated with the event

SNAREDATAMAP

Contains any other field in the event that does not map with existing Snare fields. Format is key=value with carriage returns (\r) as delimiter.