{"id":4263,"date":"2019-07-15T07:04:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2019-07-15T07:04:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:04:50","slug":"chinese-characters-appearing-in-azuremfa-event-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/chinese-characters-appearing-in-azuremfa-event-logs","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Characters appearing in Azuremfa event Logs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently trying to diagnose an issue with Radius 2fa, looking at the AzuraMFA Logs , I saw users trying to Authenticate with Mandarin Characters per below<\/p><p id=\"fnltzsw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4264  img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_5d2c24c93152a.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_5d2c24c93152a.png 790w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_5d2c24c93152a-300x76.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_5d2c24c93152a-768x194.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/p><p>Wondering if it was chinese hackers\u00a0 , I tried a simple test using a username that does not exist in AD , which actually produces this for each login, so not to worry!\u00a0<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>NPS Extension for Azure MFA: NPS Extension for Azure MFA only performs Secondary Auth for Radius requests in AccessAccept State. 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