5888(S): An object in the COM+ Catalog was modified.

Subcategory: Audit Other Object Access Events

Event Description:

This event generates when the object in COM+ Catalog was modified.

For some reason this event belongs to Audit System Integrity subcategory, but generation of this event enables in this subcategory.

Note  For recommendations, see Security Monitoring Recommendations for this event.

Event XML:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
 <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing" Guid="{54849625-5478-4994-A5BA-3E3B0328C30D}" /> 
 <EventID>5888</EventID> 
 <Version>0</Version> 
 <Level>0</Level> 
 <Task>12290</Task> 
 <Opcode>0</Opcode> 
 <Keywords>0x8020000000000000</Keywords> 
 <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-23T20:37:22.400120200Z" /> 
 <EventRecordID>344994</EventRecordID> 
 <Correlation /> 
 <Execution ProcessID="516" ThreadID="1352" /> 
 <Channel>Security</Channel> 
 <Computer>DC01.contoso.local</Computer> 
 <Security /> 
 </System>
- <EventData>
 <Data Name="SubjectUserSid">S-1-5-21-3457937927-2839227994-823803824-1104</Data> 
 <Data Name="SubjectUserName">dadmin</Data> 
 <Data Name="SubjectUserDomainName">CONTOSO</Data> 
 <Data Name="SubjectLogonId">222443</Data> 
 <Data Name="ObjectCollectionName">Applications</Data> 
 <Data Name="ObjectIdentifyingProperties">ID = {1D34B2DC-0E43-4040-BA7B-2F1C181FD86A} AppPartitionID = {41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}</Data> 
 <Data Name="ModifiedObjectProperties">Name = 'COMApp' -> 'COMApp-New' cCOL\_SecurityDescriptor = '<Opaque>' -> '<Opaque>'</Data> 
 </EventData>
 </Event>

Required Server Roles: None.

Minimum OS Version: Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista.

Event Versions: 0.

Field Descriptions:

Subject:

• Security ID [Type = SID]: SID of account that requested the “modify/change object” operation. Event Viewer automatically tries to resolve SIDs and show the account name. If the SID cannot be resolved, you will see the source data in the event.

Note  A security identifier (SID) is a unique value of variable length used to identify a trustee (security principal). Each account has a unique SID that is issued by an authority, such as an Active Directory domain controller, and stored in a security database. Each time a user logs on, the system retrieves the SID for that user from the database and places it in the access token for that user. The system uses the SID in the access token to identify the user in all subsequent interactions with Windows security. When a SID has been used as the unique identifier for a user or group, it cannot ever be used again to identify another user or group. For more information about SIDs, see Security identifiers.

• Account Name [Type = UnicodeString]: the name of the account that requested the “modify/change object” operation.

• Account Domain [Type = UnicodeString]: subject’s domain or computer name. Formats vary, and include the following:

  • Domain NETBIOS name example: CONTOSO

  • Lowercase full domain name: contoso.local

  • Uppercase full domain name: CONTOSO.LOCAL

  • For some well-known security principals, such as LOCAL SERVICE or ANONYMOUS LOGON, the value of this field is “NT AUTHORITY”.

  • For local user accounts, this field will contain the name of the computer or device that this account belongs to, for example: “Win81”.

• Logon ID [Type = HexInt64]: hexadecimal value that can help you correlate this event with recent events that might contain the same Logon ID, for example, “4624: An account was successfully logged on.”

Object:

• COM+ Catalog Collection [Type = UnicodeString]: the name of COM+ collection in which the object was modified. Here is the list of possible collection values with descriptions:

Collection	Description
ApplicationCluster	Contains a list of the servers in the application cluster.
ApplicationInstances	Contains an object for each instance of a running COM+ application.
Applications	Contains an object for each COM+ application installed on the local computer.
Components	Contains an object for each component in the application to which it is related.
ComputerList	Contains a list of the computers found in the Computers folder of the Component Services administration tool.
DCOMProtocols	Contains a list of the protocols to be used by DCOM. It contains an object for each protocol.
ErrorInfo	Retrieves extended error information regarding methods that deal with multiple objects.
EventClassesForIID	Retrieves information regarding event classes.
FilesForImport	Retrieves information from its MSI file about an application that can be imported.
InprocServers	Contains a list of the in-process servers registered with the system. It contains an object for each component.
InterfacesForComponent	Contains an object for each interface exposed by the component to which the collection is related.
LegacyComponents	Contains an object for each unconfigured component in the application to which it is related.
LegacyServers	Identical to the InprocServers collection except that this collection also includes local servers.
LocalComputer	Contains a single object that holds computer level settings information for the computer whose catalog you are accessing.
MethodsForInterface	Contains an object for each method on the interface to which the collection is related.
Partitions	Used to specify the applications contained in each partition.
PartitionUsers	Used to specify the users contained in each partition.
PropertyInfo	Retrieves information about the properties that a specified collection supports.
PublisherProperties	Contains an object for each publisher property for the parent SubscriptionsForComponent collection.
RelatedCollectionInfo	Retrieves information about other collections related to the collection from which it is called.
Roles	Contains an object for each role assigned to the application to which it is related.
RolesForComponent	Contains an object for each role assigned to the component to which the collection is related.
RolesForInterface	Contains an object for each role assigned to the interface to which the collection is related.
RolesForMethod	Contains an object for each role assigned to the method to which the collection is related.
RolesForPartition	Contains an object for each role assigned to the partition to which the collection is related.
Root	Contains the top-level collections on the catalog.
SubscriberProperties	Contains an object for each subscriber property for the parent SubscriptionsForComponent collection.
SubscriptionsForComponent	Contains an object for each subscription for the parent Components collection.
TransientPublisherProperties	Contains an object for each publisher property for the parent TransientSubscriptions collection.
TransientSubscriberProperties	Contains an object for each subscriber property for the parent TransientSubscriptions collection.
TransientSubscriptions	Contains an object for each transient subscription.
UsersInPartitionRole	Contains an object for each user in the partition role to which the collection is related.
UsersInRole	Contains an object for each user in the role to which the collection is related.
WOWInprocServers	Contains a list of the in-process servers registered with the system for 32-bit components on 64-bit computers.
WOWLegacyServers	Identical to the LegacyServers collection except that this collection is drawn from the 32-bit registry on 64-bit computers.

• Object Name [Type = UnicodeString]: object-specific fields with the names and identifiers for the modified object. It depends on COM+ Catalog Collection value, for example, if COM+ Catalog Collection = Applications, then you can find that:

  • ID - A GUID representing the application. This property is returned when the Key property method is called on an object of this collection.

  • AppPartitionID - A GUID representing the application partition ID.

Note  GUID is an acronym for 'Globally Unique Identifier'. It is a 128-bit integer number used to identify resources, activities or instances.

• Object Properties Modified [Type = UnicodeString]: the list of object’s (Object Name) properties which were modified.

  The items have the following format: Property_Name = ‘OLD_VALUE’ -> ‘NEW_VALUE’

  Check description for specific COM+ Catalog Collection to see the list of object’s properties and descriptions.

Security Monitoring Recommendations

For 5888(S): An object in the COM+ Catalog was modified.

Important  For this event, also see Appendix A: Security monitoring recommendations for many audit events.

• If you have a specific COM+ object for which you need to monitor all modifications, monitor all 5888 events with the corresponding Object Name.