Administrator Privilege Gain Action

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Administrator Privilege Gain Action

The Administrator Privilege Gain action deals with the expression of event information pertaining to the detection of activity related to privilege gain to administrator account. (Ex: Brute force attack on a administrator account)

Information	Level
Source - User Information	Tertiary
Source - Host Information	Primary
Source - Object Information	Primary
Source - Process Information	Tertiary
Source - Group Information	Tertiary
Dest - User Information	Secondary
Dest - Host Information	Primary
Dest - Object Information	Tertiary
Dest - Process Information	Tertiary
Dest - Group Information	Tertiary
Agent - Information	Primary
Agent - Host Information	Primary
Event Source - Host Information	Primary
Event Source - Information	Tertiary
Event - Information	Primary
Result - Information	Primary

The important information for this action is which signature was matched for the connection from which host to which host. The event information was expressed on which host and recorded by which agent on which host.

Result	event_result	event_severity
Success	S	6
Failure	F	5
Attempt	A	5