Hello,
Daily I get over a thousand attempts to launch something on SharePoint from one of our service accounts and it floods my logs. Below is the event it seems it is trying to launch mssdmn.exe
- System
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
[ Guid] {54849625-5478-4994-A5BA-3E3B0328C30D} EventID 4625 Version 0 Level 0 Task 12544 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x8010000000000000
[ SystemTime] 2021-11-22T16:55:55.259501700Z EventRecordID 50225106
[ ActivityID] {D24BBE89-DAB0-0001-8EBE-4BD2B0DAD701}
[ ProcessID] 716
[ ThreadID] 764 Channel Security Computer Web01-SVR Security
- EventData SubjectUserSid S-1-5-21-390273349-1640052117-1XXXXXX-XXXXX
SubjectDomainName XXXXXXXX
SubjectLogonId 0x10ead2
TargetUserSid S-1-0-0
TargetUserNameXXXXXXX
TargetDomainName XXXXXXXXXX
Status 0xc000006d
FailureReason %%2313
SubStatus 0xc000006a
LogonType 8
LogonProcessName Advapi
AuthenticationPackageName Negotiate
WorkstationName-WEB01-SVR
TransmittedServices -
LmPackageName -
KeyLength 0
ProcessId 0x285c
ProcessName C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\16.0\Bin\mssdmn.exe
IpAddress -
IpPort -
Failure Information:
Failure Reason: Unknown user name or bad password.
Status: 0xC000006D
Sub Status: 0xC000006A
Process Information:
Caller Process ID: 0x285c
Caller Process Name: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\16.0\Bin\mssdmn.exe
Network Information:
Workstation Name: WEB01-SVR
Source Network Address: -
Source Port: -
Detailed Authentication Information:
Logon Process: Advapi
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Transited Services: -
Package Name (NTLM only): -
Key Length: 0
This event is generated when a logon request fails. It is generated on the computer where access was attempted.
The Subject fields indicate the account on the local system which requested the logon. This is most commonly a service such as the Server service, or a local process such as Winlogon.exe or Services.exe.
The Logon Type field indicates the kind of logon that was requested. The most common types are 2 (interactive) and 3 (network).
The Process Information fields indicate which account and process on the system requested the logon.
The Network Information fields indicate where a remote logon request originated. Workstation name is not always available and may be left blank in some cases.
The authentication information fields provide detailed information about this specific logon request.
- Transited services indicate which intermediate services have participated in this logon request.
- Package name indicates which sub-protocol was used among the NTLM protocols.
- Key length indicates the length of the generated session key. This will be 0 if no session key was requested.