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SSHD

About

SSHD is the OpenSSH server process. It listens to incoming connections using the SSH protocol and acts as the server for the protocol. It handles user authentication, encryption, terminal connections, file transfers, and tunneling.

Product Details

Vendor URL: Sshd is the Linux OpenSSH server process

Product Type: SSH proxy

Product Tier: Tier I

Integration Method: Unknown

Log Guide: SSHD Logging

Parser Details

Log Format: SYSLOG

Expected Normalization Rate: 75%

Data Label: WMT_SSHD

UDM Fields (list of all UDM fields leveraged in the Parser):

Log File Field UDM Field
Defined metadata.event_type
Defined extensions.auth.type
command src.process.command_line
target_host target.hostname
domain target.administrative_domain
suser src.user.userid
target_user src.user.userid
src_host principal.hostname
target_ip target.ip
userid principal.user.userid
src_port principal.port
summary metadata.description
pool_data additional.fields
thread additional.fields
url target.url
vendor metadata.vendor_name
product_event metadata.product_event_type
Defined metadata.product_name
observer observer.hostname
observer observer.ip
odomain observer.administrative_domain
severity security_result.severity

Product Event Types

Event Type
SSHD
dzdo
FTPD
HTTPD
sshd.AgentUtil
sshd.PublicKeyAuthenticationProviderImpl
sshd.PasswordAuthenticationProviderImpl
sshd.AgentEventsFileSystem
sshd.STKeyboardInteractiveAuthentication

Log Sample

<134>Aug  4 23:59:50 device.domain.com 0000-00-00 SecTransport (SSHD) 2021-08-04 23:59:50,118 INFO [pool-1-thread-43483] com.website.domain.server.sshd.AgentUtil - Login agent success [accountName=johndoe remoteAddress=devicename/10.10.10.10]

Sample Parsing

metadata.event_timestamp = "2021-09-09T18:21:50Z"
metadata.event_type = "USER_LOGIN"
metadata.vendor_name = "SecTransport"
metadata.product_name = "SSHD"
metadata.product_event_type = "SSHD"
metadata.description = "Login agent success"
metadata.ingested_timestamp = "2021-09-09T18:21:53.008036Z"
additional.Pool = "1"
additional.Thread = "57694"
principal.hostname = "devicename"
principal.user.userid = "johndoe"
principal.ip = "10.10.10.10"
principal.namespace = "domain"
target.url = "com.website.domain.server.sshd.AgentUtil"
target.namespace = "website"
observer.hostname = "Obeserver"
observer.administrative_domain = "domain.com"
observer.namespace = "tenantname"
security_result.action = "ALLOW"
security_result.severity = "INFORMATIONAL"

Parser Alerting

This product currently does not have any Parser-based Alerting

Rules

Coming Soon