eventsModule

AD FS Events Module

AdfsEventsModule Overview

This module provides tools for gathering related ADFS events from the security, admin, and debug logs, across multiple servers. This tool also allows the user to reconstruct the HTTP request/response headers from the logs.

Install

Follow the instructions here to install this module.

Cmdlets in AdfsEventsModule

This module exposes the following cmdlets:

1. Get-AdfsEvents - Allows you to query servers for ADFS logs. Contains options for querying, aggregation, and analysis

2. Write-ADFSEventsSummary - Allows you to generate a summary of an ADFS request, based on the logs from Get-AdfsEvents

3. Enable-ADFSAuditing - Enables all the ADFS and OS auditing switches on the current server, and enables just the ADFS switches on remote servers

4. Disable-ADFSAuditing - Disables all the ADFS and OS auditing switches on the current server, and disables just the ADFS switches on remote servers

The detailed parameters for Get-AdfsEvents and Write-ADFSEventsSummary are provided below.

The Get-AdfsEvents cmdlet is used to aggregate events by correlation ID, while the Write-ADFSEventsSummary cmdlet is used to generate a PowerShell Table of only the most relevant logging information from the events that are piped in.

Get-AdfsEvents Parameters

• Logs - A list of AD FS logs to include in the aggregation. Current options are: "Admin", "Debug", "Security". The default will pull from both Security and Admin.
• CorrelationID - The correlation ID for a single request. This will aggregate all chosen logs for this request
• All - This flag will cause all events in the desired logs to be grouped by correlation ID.
• CreateAnalysisData - This flag can be combined with any means of event collection (a single Correlation ID, all events, or time based) to reconstruct the HTTP requests that were performed for each Correlation ID.
• StartTime - The UTC start time to use when aggregating multiple requests. All requests that start after this time will be aggregated
• EndTime - The UTC end time to use when aggregating multiple requests. All requests that end before this time will be aggregated
• Server - A comma-separated list of server names to pull logs from. On ADFS 2016 and up, you can use "*" to query all The default will query LocalHost
• FilePath - A file path to an EVTX log file that you want to read from, instead of querying your servers

Get-AdfsEvents Output

The output produced by Get-AdfsEvents is a list of objects, each containing the following properties.

1. CorrelationID - the Correlation ID for this set of events
2. Events - a list of EventLogRecord objects for the matching Correlation ID.
3. AnalysisData - a JSON data blob containing details on the HTTP requests that were performed during the course of this transaction For more details on the AnalysisData blob, see below

Using Get-AdfsEvents

1. Import the PowerShell Module

   In a PowerShell window, run the following:

   ipmo AdfsEventsModule.psm1

2. Run Get-AdfsEvents with your desired parameters to get a list of PowerShell objects

   EXAMPLE: Retrieve all logs from two servers for a specific request

   $logs = Get-AdfsEvents -Logs Security, Admin, Debug -CorrelationID 0c0fd6ee-4b1e-4260-0300-0080070000e3 -Server LocalHost, MyServer

   OUTPUT:

   Events                              AnalysisData  CorrelationID
   ------                              -------       -------------
   
   {EventLogRecord, EventLogRecord}    {}            0c0fd6ee-4b1e-4260-0300-0080070000e3
   

3. To view specific records:

   $logs[0].Events[0]

   OUTPUT:

   Message         : An HTTP request was received. See audit 510 with the same Instance ID for headers.
   
                      Instance ID: 64fb88c5-7f4e-4888-8b61-7d0d85563b82
   
                      Activity ID: 0c0fd6ee-4b1e-4260-0300-0080070000e3
   
                      Request Details:
                          Date And Time: 2017-09-19 20:50:43
                          Client IP: 123.45.67.9
                          HTTP Method: GET
                          Url Absolute Path: /adfs/portal/logo/logo.png
                          Query string: ?id=12345
                          Local Port: 443
                          Local IP: 123.45.67.8
                          User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36
                          Content Length: 0
                          Caller Identity: -
                          Certificate Identity (if any): -
                          Targeted relying party: -
                          Through proxy: False
                          Proxy DNS name: -
                      CorrelationID        : 0c0fd6ee-4b1e-4260-0300-0080070000e3
                      PSComputerName       : LocalHost
                      RunspaceId           : 6d3d7715-08db-4aa1-b299-40d51d5db682
                      Id                   : 403
                      Version              :
                      Qualifiers           : 0
                      Level                : 0
                      Task                 : 3
                      Opcode               :
                      Keywords             : 12345
                      RecordId             : 12345
                      ProviderName         : AD FS Auditing
                      ProviderId           :
                      LogName              : Security
                      ProcessId            :
                      ThreadId             :
                      MachineName          : contoso.com
                      UserId               :
                      TimeCreated          : 9/19/2017 1:50:43 PM
                      ActivityId           :
                      RelatedActivityId    :
                      ContainerLog         : security
                      MatchedQueryIds      : {}
                      Bookmark             : System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventBookmark
                      LevelDisplayName     : Information
                      OpcodeDisplayName    : Info
                      TaskDisplayName      :
                      KeywordsDisplayNames : {Audit Success, Classic}
                      Properties           : {}
                      ```
   
   

4. You can pipe your output to Write-ADFSEventsSummary

   EXAMPLE:

   Get-AdfsEvents -Logs Security, Admin, Debug -CorrelationID 0c0fd6ee-4b1e-4260-0300-0080070000e3 -Server LocalHost, MyServer | Write-ADFSEventsSummary

   OUTPUT:

   Time          : 9/19/2017 1:50:43 PM
   EventID       : 403
   Details       : An HTTP request was received. See audit 510 with the same Instance ID for headers.
   
                   Instance ID: 64fb88c5-7f4e-4888-8b61-7d0d85563b82
   
                   Activity ID: 0c0fd6ee-4b1e-4260-0300-0080070000e3
   
                   Request Details:
                       Date And Time: 2017-09-19 20:50:43
                      Client IP: 123.45.67.9
                      HTTP Method: GET
                      Url Absolute Path: /adfs/portal/logo/logo.png
                      Query string: ?id=12345
                      Local Port: 443
                      Local IP: 123.45.67.8
                      User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36
                      Content Length: 0
                      Caller Identity: -
                      Certificate Identity (if any): -
                      Targeted relying party: -
                      Through proxy: False
                      Proxy DNS name: -
   CorrelationID : 0c0fd6ee-4b1e-4260-0300-0080070000e3
   Machine       : contoso.com
   Log           : Security
   
   Time          : 9/19/2017 1:50:43 PM
   EventID       : 410
   Details       : Following request context headers present :
   
                   Activity ID: 0c0fd6ee-4b1e-4260-0300-0080070000e3
   
                   X-MS-Client-Application: -
                   X-MS-Client-User-Agent: -
                   client-request-id: -
                   X-MS-Endpoint-Absolute-Path: /adfs/portal/logo/logo.png
                   X-MS-Forwarded-Client-IP: -
                   X-MS-Proxy: -
                   X-MS-ADFS-Proxy-Client-IP: -
   CorrelationID : 0c0fd6ee-4b1e-4260-0300-0080070000e3
   Machine       : contoso.com
   Log           : Security
   

5. You can pipe the output of Write-ADFSEventsSummary to a CSV

   Get-AdfsEvents -Logs Security, Admin, Debug -CorrelationID 0c0fd6ee-4b1e-4260-0300-0080070000e3 -Server LocalHost, MyServer | Write-ADFSEventsSummary | Export-CSV mylogs.csv

6. You can output the full data objects from Get-AdfsEvents to XML using:

   Export-Clixml

   Import-Clixml

The AnalysisData Blob

The AnalysisData blob contains the following:

• requests - a set of HTTP requests made during the current transaction. Each request contains request details, HTTP header information, and session token information (when available)

• responses - a set of HTTP responses given during the current transaction. Each response contains response details, HTTP header information, and outgoing tokens (when available)

• errors - a set of EventLogRecord objects from the current transaction that are marked as errors

• timeline - a set of timeline events to show the progress of a transaction through the ADFS pipeline. Timeline events correspond to roughly the following:

  • incoming - ADFS received an incoming HTTP request
  • authn - ADFS is performing authentication
  • authz - ADFS is performing authorization checks
  • issuance - ADFS is performing token issuance

  Each timeline event contains a success or failure result, indicating whether the given pipeline step was a success or failure.

Pester Tests

This project includes a set of Pester tests to ensure the basic functionality of the script.

To run the tests, you must have Pester version 4.x or higher installed on the machine you will run Get-AdfsEvents from. For more information on installing Pester, see their installation instructions.

Once Pester is installed, you can copy the test file and script to the same location, and run the following:

cd <directory containing tests and script>
Invoke-Pester -Script .\Test.AdfsEventsModule.ps1

For more details, see the testing Readme

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. We encourage you to fork this project, include any scripts you use for parsing, managing, or manipulating ADFS logs, and then do a pull request to master. If your scripts work, we'll include them so everyone can benefit.

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