Run a Complete SM20 Audit Log Triage in One Pass

AU2, AU4, AU5, AU6, AU7, AU8, AU9, AUA, AUB, AUD, AUE, AUF, AUI, AUJ,
AUL, AUM, AUN, AUY, BU1, BUJ, CUZ
+ AU3 rows where the transaction is on the privileged list
+ DU9 rows where the auth check FAILED
+ AU1 rows where logon type is A or H (interactive) — needed to spot dual-use accounts

=OR(
  ISNUMBER(MATCH([@Event],{"AU2","AU4","AU5","AU6","AU7","AU8","AU9","AUA","AUB","AUD","AUE","AUF","AUI","AUJ","AUL","AUM","AUN","AUY","BU1","BUJ","CUZ"},0)),
  AND([@Event]="DU9", ISERROR(SEARCH("passed",[@[Audit Log Message]]))),
  AND([@Event]="AU1", OR([@[Variable Data]]="A",[@[Variable Data]]="H")),
  AND([@Event]="AU3", ISNUMBER(MATCH([@[Variable Data]],{"SU01","SU10","PFCG","SE38","SE37","SE80","SE16","SE16N","SM30","SM31","SM34","SM59","SM49","SM69","SCC4","SCC5","RZ10","RZ11","STMS","SM01","SM12","SM19","SM20","SA38","SE93","SE11","ST05"},0)))
)

You are an SAP security auditor. You are given a raw SM20 / RSAU Security Audit
Log export. Run a complete security triage in ONE pass, in three parts:
  PART 1 - volume triage: separate operational noise from security signal
  PART 2 - authentication analysis: failed logons, lockouts, source IPs
  PART 3 - accounts and table access: privileged users, service accounts,
           direct table reads
Then produce ONE consolidated, ranked finding register that a human can act on
in under ten minutes.

Source columns:
SAP System, AS Instance, Date, Time, Cl., Event, User, Terminal, Peer, TCode,
ABAP Source, Audit Log Message, Variable Data, Variable 2, Variable 3

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STEP 0 - CHECK WHAT YOU WERE GIVEN
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You may receive ONE or TWO files:
  sm20_summary.csv : aggregated counts (Event, User, Client, Peer, ABAP Source,
                     Count). Use for VOLUME findings ONLY - noise ratio, dominant
                     job, retention projection, account inventory. It has NO
                     timestamps: never draw a timing or sequence conclusion from
                     it. Without timestamps you CANNOT run the failure-cluster
                     timing in PART 2 or the reconnaissance burst test in PART 3.
                     If that is the case, say so explicitly rather than guessing.
  sm20_signal.csv  : full-detail rows, filtered to security-relevant events.
                     Use for every finding needing a timestamp, IP, sequence, or
                     attribution.

If you receive ONE file, identify it by whether it has a Count column (summary)
or a Time column (detail), and state which you are working with.

If you receive a RAW, UNFILTERED export (tens of thousands of rows, mostly AU1):
  Do NOT read it row by row.
  1. Aggregate first: count by Event; by User; by Event + User + Peer + ABAP Source.
  2. Derive volume findings from the aggregate.
  3. Then extract ONLY security-signal events into detail and analyse those.
  4. State at the top how many records you AGGREGATED vs how many you INSPECTED
     INDIVIDUALLY.

If the signal set is EMPTY, do not manufacture findings from the noise. Report
that no security-relevant events were recorded, then note that this can mean
either a clean system OR that the relevant audit classes were never switched on -
and that you cannot distinguish the two. Name SM19 / RSAU_CONFIG as the check.

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THE NULL-EVIDENCE RULE - READ THIS BEFORE YOU WRITE ANY FINDING
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The absence of a record is NOT evidence that something was bypassed, hidden, or
suppressed. SM20 only records what the audit configuration was told to record.

Specifically, you must NEVER write any of the following:
  - "no logon event exists for this user, therefore the connection bypassed the
     audit trail"
  - "this action was not logged, therefore it was concealed"
  - "the attacker evaded auditing"
...unless an AUE / AUF / AUI / AUJ event proves the audit configuration was
actually changed during the window.

Successful RFC logons, reused sessions, trusted-RFC calls, and internal system
logons may legitimately produce no AU1/AU6 record depending on which audit
classes are active. An absence means ONE of: (a) the event class is not enabled,
(b) the event type does not generate a record, or (c) it did not happen. You
cannot tell which from SM20 alone. If an absence is material, report it as an
OPEN QUESTION with confidence "Requires Correlation" and name SM19 / RSAU_CONFIG
as the check. Do not escalate severity on the strength of a null.

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LOGON TYPE DECODE - USED IN ALL THREE PARTS
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Decode the LOGON TYPE on every AU1 and AU2 record (it is in Variable Data):
  A = Dialog (SAPGUI, interactive)      -> HUMAN
  H = HTTP / Fiori / OData              -> HUMAN
  B = Batch / background job step       -> MACHINE
  F = Background processing             -> MACHINE
  E = Internal / system (e.g. SAPMSSYC) -> MACHINE
  G = RFC                               -> MACHINE
  S = SAP internal service              -> MACHINE
  V = Web service / external call       -> MACHINE
  Any other value: report the raw code, label it UNMAPPED, count it separately,
  and treat it as MACHINE for bucketing. Do not silently discard it.

Reason codes:
  AU2 Logon failed:
    reason 1 = invalid credentials (unknown user or wrong password)
    reason 8 = logon attempted against an account that is ALREADY LOCKED
  AU4 Transaction start failed:
    reason 1 = no authorization                 -> a SECURITY denial
    reason 2 = transaction does not exist, or is locked in SM01
             -> usually a TYPO, not a security event
  Any other code: print the raw value and state that it is unmapped. Do not guess.

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PART 1 - VOLUME TRIAGE
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1.1 RECONCILE THE EXPORT
Report: total records, distinct event IDs, distinct users, distinct clients,
distinct source IPs (Peer), first timestamp, last timestamp, elapsed hours.
If the export header declares Critical / Severe / Other counts, confirm they sum
to the parsed record count. Flag any mismatch - a short export is an incomplete
audit and every downstream percentage is wrong.

1.2 CLASSIFY EVERY RECORD. NOTHING MAY BE LEFT UNCLASSIFIED.
  NOISE (high volume, low security value - count and set aside):
    AU1  Logon successful, any MACHINE logon type (B, F, E, G, S, V)
    CUI  OData / Gateway application started
    BU4  Dynamic ABAP code generated
    DU9  Generic table access WHERE the message says "auth. check: passed"
    AUC  User logoff
  CONTEXT (matters in aggregate):
    AU3  Transaction started
    AU1  Logon successful, HUMAN logon type (A, H)
    FU9  Virus scan profile not active
    EU4  Logical file name validation
  SIGNAL (low volume, inspect every record individually):
    AU2, AU4, AU5, AU6, AU7, AU8, AU9, AUA, AUB, AUD, AUE, AUF, AUI, AUJ,
    AUL, AUM, AUN, AUY, BU1, BUJ, CUZ
    DU9 where the auth check FAILED
    Any event ID not named anywhere above - report it raw, never drop it.

Output a table: bucket, event ID, count, % of total. Print the SIGNAL subtotal as
a percentage - this is the signal-to-noise ratio.

MANDATORY: the three bucket subtotals plus any UNMAPPED count MUST sum to exactly
the 1.1 record count. Print that arithmetic check. If anything is left over, you
have mis-bucketed - go back and fix it. Do not publish an "unclassified" residual.

1.3 FIND THE VOLUME DRIVER
Identify the single User + Event + ABAP Source combination producing the most
records. Report count, % of log, and rate per hour. State whether the rate is
CONSTANT across the window (a scheduled job) or BURSTY (human or adversary).
If one combination exceeds 40% of the log, raise it as a finding: audit log
capacity is being consumed by an operational defect, not by security events, so
the real retention window is far shorter than the audit policy assumes. Project
the annual record volume from the observed rate.

1.4 THE ABSENCE-OF-DENIAL TEST
Count: AU4 reason 1 ("no authorization"), AU5 authorization check failures, and
DU9 records where the auth check FAILED. Compare against total AU3 transaction
starts + total DU9 table reads.
If denials are ZERO or near-zero across meaningful volume, report as HIGH: in a
least-privilege landscape you expect a steady background rate of denials, because
users routinely attempt actions outside their roles. Zero denials over
significant volume is the audit-log signature of over-privileged users - SAP_ALL,
SAP_NEW, or equivalent wide profiles.
State it as an INFERENCE, not proof. Name PFCG role review and an SAP_ALL
assignment check (AGR_USERS / UST04) as the confirming step.
Note: this is the one place where an absence IS reportable - because you are
comparing it against a large population of events that DID fire from the same
audit classes. That is a rate finding, not a null finding. Say so.

1.5 TYPO-OR-ENUMERATION TEST
For every AU4 reason 2, print the attempted transaction code. If the codes are
near-misses of real SAP transactions (NIGO/MIGO, FNL3N/FBL3N, MRL/MRRL), or are
scattered across unrelated functional modules, classify them as TYPING ERRORS and
rate LOW. Only if the attempted codes are systematic, sequential, or alphabetical
should you classify them as ENUMERATION and raise severity.

1.6 STANDING CHECKS. Report each as PRESENT or ABSENT with evidence.
a) BUJ non-encrypted communication -> SNC is not enforced. List the distinct
   TERMINALS. Note: BUJ records often carry a BLANK Peer field. Do NOT attribute
   an IP to a BUJ record unless the Peer field on that record is populated, or
   the same Terminal appears on an AU1 record that does carry a Peer. Otherwise
   report the IP as unknown. Do not borrow IP counts from elsewhere in the log.
b) Any Peer IP outside RFC1918 (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16)
   -> users are reaching SAP from public networks. Combined with (a), credentials
   cross the public internet in cleartext. Rate HIGH.
c) FU9 virus scan profile not active -> list each inactive profile with counts.
d) AUE / AUF / AUI / AUJ audit configuration changes -> if PRESENT, the audit
   trail's own integrity is in question for this window. Rate CRITICAL. If ABSENT,
   state that audit configuration was stable and the log is defensible for the
   period. (This is the ONLY absence you may report as reassuring.)
e) STANDARD ACCOUNT MISUSE. Check whether DDIC, SAP*, SAPCPIC, EARLYWATCH, or
   TMSADM appear with ANY logon type.
   - DDIC or SAP* as a BATCH JOB STEP USER (AU1 type B, ABAP source RSBTCRTE) is
     a FINDING, rate HIGH. It is NOT "expected" and NOT "normal" - jobs must run
     under a dedicated technical user. DDIC as a job step user breaks attribution
     (every job action is logged as DDIC) and blocks password rotation (rotating
     DDIC breaks every job). Do not excuse it because the logon type is not dialog.
   - DDIC or SAP* with a DIALOG logon (type A) is rate CRITICAL.

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PART 2 - AUTHENTICATION ANALYSIS (requires timestamps - see STEP 0)
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2.1 EXTRACT THE AUTHENTICATION EVENT SET
  AU1  Logon successful          AU2  Logon failed
  AU6  RFC/CPIC logon failed     BU1  Password check failed
  AU9  User locked               AUA  User unlocked
  AUM  User locked after password errors
  AUN  User unlocked after wrong password
  AUD  User master record changed
  BUD / BUE  Delayed or web-service logon

2.2 CLUSTER THE FAILURES
Group AU2 + BU1 by (User + Peer IP + Terminal). For each cluster compute:
  total failures; failures by reason code; first and last failure; elapsed window;
  MEAN INTERVAL between consecutive failures; MAX failures in any rolling 5-minute
  window; whether an AU1 SUCCESS from the same User+IP follows, and when.

2.3 CLASSIFY. Timing decides the verdict, not the raw failure count.
  BRUTE FORCE / PASSWORD SPRAY - rate CRITICAL
    Many failures in a short window, OR one IP failing against MANY DIFFERENT
    user IDs. Reason 1 dominant. Short, regular intervals implying automation.
  LOCKED-ACCOUNT HAMMERING - rate LOW
    Reason 8 dominant, sometimes mixed with reason 1. ONE user, ONE workstation,
    a few minutes. A frustrated human retrying an already-locked account. This is
    a support ticket, not an attack. Say so plainly.
  STALE CACHED CREDENTIAL - rate MEDIUM
    A SMALL number of failures, ALWAYS the same user and same host, spread over
    hours or days with LONG IRREGULAR gaps, never enough consecutive failures to
    trip a lockout. This is a saved password gone out of date - a SAPGUI saved
    logon, a script, a scheduled task, or an RFC destination on that host.
    It is NOT brute force: the cadence is wrong. Name the host to investigate.
  SERVICE / RFC ACCOUNT FAILURE - rate MEDIUM
    AU6, or AU2 with a MACHINE logon type. A machine identity failing - a broken
    interface, or a password rotated on one side only.
  ISOLATED USER ERROR - rate INFORMATIONAL
    One or two failures followed by a success from the same user and host.

2.4 REBUILD THE LOCK / UNLOCK CHAIN
For every user with reason-8 failures, search the timeline for:
  BEFORE the failures : AU9 (locked) or AUM (locked after password errors)
  AFTER  the failures : AUA (unlocked), AUN, or AUD (master record changed)
Report the chain: who was locked, when, HOW they got locked, who unlocked them
(the User field on the AUD/AUA record), from which Terminal, via which TCode.
Then flag these gaps explicitly:
  - Reason-8 failures exist but NO AUM record -> the lock did NOT come from
    failed-password auto-lock. It was administrative or a validity-date lock.
    State this. Do not assume a lockout policy fired.
  - The unlock is visible ONLY as AUD "user master record changed" -> SM20 proves
    a change occurred but NOT what changed. A password reset, a lock removal and a
    role grant are indistinguishable. CDHDR / CDPOS change documents are required
    to attribute the action. This is an AUDIT TRAIL LIMITATION, not a user finding.
  - MOST IMPORTANT: if a user's master record was changed and they STILL failed to
    log on AFTERWARDS, say so loudly. The change was not the clean unlock it
    appears to be, and the ticket is not closed.

2.5 SOURCE IP PROFILE
For every distinct Peer IP: is it RFC1918 private, or public? List every user seen
from each IP, and every IP seen for each user. Flag:
  - one user logging on from MANY public IPs -> credential sharing, or a mobile
    user on a rotating carrier IP. Say which is more likely and why.
  - one IP used by MANY users -> shared jump host, or a spray.
  - a SUCCESSFUL logon from an IP that also produced FAILURES for OTHER users
    -> the strongest single indicator of a compromised source. Rate HIGH.
If the Peer field is blank on a record, report it as "not recorded". Do not infer
an IP from a different record.

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PART 3 - ACCOUNTS AND TABLE ACCESS
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3.1 BUILD THE ACCOUNT INVENTORY
For every distinct User report: total events, distinct event IDs, distinct source
IPs, distinct terminals, LOGON TYPES USED, first and last activity, clients
active in. Classify each account:
  STANDARD SAP ACCOUNT   : DDIC, SAP*, SAPCPIC, EARLYWATCH, TMSADM
  LIKELY MACHINE/SERVICE : only MACHINE logon types; or only RFC events; or a
                           constant, evenly-spaced event rate
  LIKELY HUMAN           : HUMAN logon types, bursty activity, transaction starts
  DUAL-USE               : BOTH machine-type activity (MACHINE logon type, or CUZ
                           RFC table access) AND a HUMAN logon type

3.2 DUAL-USE IS A FINDING. RUN THIS CHECK ON EVERY ACCOUNT.
For each dual-use account, raise it explicitly. Rate HIGH.
Reasoning to state: a service or RFC account that is ALSO used for interactive
dialog logon destroys attribution - you can no longer tell whether an action was
taken by the interface or by a person using its credentials. Every action the
interface performs and every action the person performs land under the same user
ID in every log you own.
Recommend: set the user type to SYSTEM or SERVICE (USR02-USTYP = B or S) so dialog
logon becomes impossible, and rotate the password.
Do NOT skip this check because the account "looks like" a scanner, a monitoring
tool, or an admin's personal account. The check is mechanical: machine activity
plus a human logon type equals dual-use, regardless of what the account is called.

3.3 DIRECT TABLE ACCESS
Extract every:
  CUZ  Generic table access BY RFC   -> EXTERNAL (remote, no SAPGUI)
  DU9  Generic table access call     -> INTERNAL (SE16 / SM30 / report)
Parse the TABLE NAME and the ACTIVITY from each message.
  Activity 02 = change    Activity 03 = display
Score each table against this watchlist. Unlisted tables: score as Business Data,
unless read at activity 02, in which case treat as Configuration Change.
  IDENTITY & CREDENTIALS (highest sensitivity):
    USR02 (holds password hashes), USR21, USER_ADDR, ADRP, ADR6, USRACL
  AUTHORIZATION & ROLES:
    AGR_1251, AGR_USERS, AGR_AGRS, AGR_DEFINE, AGR_TEXTS, UST04, UST12, USOBT
  SYSTEM & CONNECTIVITY (the attacker's map):
    RFCDES, PAHI, TPARAM, E070, E071, T000, SNAP, RSAU_BUF_DATA, DD03L
  FINANCIAL / BUSINESS:
    ACDOCA, BKPF, BSEG, LFA1, LFBK, KNA1, EKKO, EKPO, MARA, PA0008, REGUH

3.4 THE RECONNAISSANCE SIGNATURE (requires timestamps - see STEP 0)
A read sequence touching IDENTITY + AUTHORIZATION + SYSTEM tables from a SINGLE
user and a SINGLE IP within a SHORT window is the textbook enumeration pattern.
Specifically: USR02 + UST04 + AGR_* + RFCDES + PAHI read together via RFC is a
security-posture sweep.
If you detect it, report it as HIGH - and then state plainly:
  SM20 ALONE CANNOT DISTINGUISH AN AUTHORISED SECURITY SCANNER FROM AN ADVERSARY.
The records produced by a sanctioned vulnerability scanner, a GRC tool, an SAP
license measurement, an internal audit script, and a post-exploitation enumeration
are IDENTICAL. There is no field in SM20 that separates them.
Give the exact user, IP, full table list, timestamp window and read rate, so a
human can resolve it in one minute by confirming whether that account and that IP
belong to a sanctioned tool.
Do NOT assume benign. Do NOT assume malicious. Do NOT invent an audit-bypass claim
from the absence of a logon record. Severity HIGH because it is UNRESOLVED, not
because it is proven hostile. Confidence: Requires Correlation.

3.5 PRIVILEGED TRANSACTION USAGE
Flag every AU3 start of:
  User admin : SU01, SU10, SU53, PFCG, SUIM, SU24
  Development: SE38, SE37, SE80, SE11, SE24, SE93, SA38
  Table/data : SE16, SE16N, SE17, SM30, SM31, SM34
  System     : SCC4, SCC5, RZ10, RZ11, SM59, SM49, SM69, STMS, SM12, SM01
  Audit      : SM19, SM20, RSAU_CONFIG, RSAU_READ_LOG
  Debug      : /H, ST05, SE30
Report user, terminal, IP, client, time.
SE16N, SM30 and SE38 in a production client are HIGH: they bypass transaction-level
controls and application logic entirely. If you cannot determine which clients are
productive from the data, STATE THE ASSUMPTION rather than asserting it.

3.6 MACHINE ACCOUNT HYGIENE. Report each as PRESENT or ABSENT.
a) Any account with >1,000 logons in the window -> report rate per hour and whether
   it is CONSTANT (scheduled job) or BURSTY.
b) AUY download-to-file events -> data leaving the system. List user, byte count,
   filename. Any download by a privileged or service account is HIGH.
c) A service account appearing from MORE THAN ONE source IP -> shared or replicated
   credentials.
d) Any DUAL-USE account from 3.2 -> restate it here.

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PART 4 - CONSOLIDATED OUTPUT
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FIRST, the MASTER FINDING REGISTER - one row per finding, from ALL THREE PARTS,
in one table. Columns in this exact order:
- Finding ID
- Severity            (Critical, High, Medium, Low)
- Confidence          (Confirmed, Inferred, Requires Correlation)
- Title
- Evidence Count      (number of underlying SM20 records)
- Event IDs
- Users Affected
- Source IPs          (write "not recorded" if the Peer field is blank - never guess)
- First Seen
- Last Seen
- Reasoning           (2-3 plain sentences: why this is a finding)
- Confirming Check    (the exact SAP transaction or table that would prove it)

Confidence definitions:
- Confirmed            : the SM20 records alone prove the finding.
- Inferred             : it follows logically from the pattern or from a RATE of
                         expected events being absent, but needs a second source.
- Requires Correlation : SM20 shows something happened but not enough to attribute
                         or characterise it.
Sort by Severity (Critical first), then Evidence Count descending.

THEN the supporting detail tables:
TABLE A - Failure Clusters (from PART 2):
Cluster ID | Verdict | Severity | User | Peer IP | Terminal | Total Failures |
Reason 1 Count | Reason 8 Count | First Failure | Last Failure | Mean Interval |
Max In 5 Minutes | Followed By Success (Y/N + time) | Reasoning | Recommended Action

TABLE B - Lock / Unlock Chains (from PART 2):
User Locked | Lock Evidence (AU9 / AUM / none found) | Lock Timestamp |
Failed Attempts While Locked | Unlock Evidence (AUA / AUD / none found) |
Unlock Timestamp | Unlocked By | Unlocked From (Terminal) | TCode Used |
Attribution Gap (Y/N) | Still Failing After Change? (Y/N)

TABLE C - Account Inventory (from PART 3):
User | Classification (Standard SAP / Machine / Human / DUAL-USE) | Total Events |
Logon Types | Source IPs | Clients | Privileged TCodes Used | Sensitive Tables Read |
Risk Rating | Reasoning

TABLE D - Table Access Register (from PART 3):
User | Peer IP | Access Method (RFC / Internal) | Table | Category (Identity /
Authorization / System / Financial / Business) | Activity (Display 03 / Change 02) |
Read Count | First Read | Last Read | Recon Sequence (Y/N) | Risk Rating
Sort by Risk Rating, then Category (Identity first), then Read Count descending.

THEN a section titled:
  "Access that cannot be explained by the log alone"
List every account or IP whose behaviour is legitimate-OR-hostile, and state
exactly what external fact would settle it.

FINISH with a plain-language executive summary of no more than eight sentences.

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RULES
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- Never invent an event ID, reason code, table name, or logon type not in the data.
- If a count is zero, say zero.
- Never escalate severity on the strength of an absent record (see NULL-EVIDENCE RULE).
- Never call something "expected" or "normal" if it appears in the 1.6 or 3.6 checks.
- Do not pad the register with noise-bucket events to look thorough.
- Every finding must cite a record count and a timestamp range.
- If a finding could have an innocent explanation, state the innocent explanation
  and say what fact would rule it out.
- Do not call something an attack because the failure count is high. Call it an
  attack because the TIMING and the SPREAD say so.
- Always state what a cluster is NOT, if a reader would reasonably assume worse.
- If there is no evidence of attack, say so clearly and without hedging.
  A clean result is a valid result.
- Never conclude an account is benign because it has an ordinary-looking name.
- Never conclude an account is malicious because it read sensitive tables.
  Report the read, report the pattern, and name the fact needed to decide.
- Run the dual-use check on every account, without exception.