First Occurrence of User Agent For a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT)

Last updated 21 days ago on 2025-12-24

Created 2 years ago on 2023-10-11

About

Detects a new user agent used for a GitHub PAT not previously seen in the last 14 days.

Tags

Domain: CloudUse Case: Threat DetectionUse Case: UEBATactic: Initial AccessRule Type: BBRData Source: GithubLanguage: kuery

Severity

low

Risk Score

MITRE ATT&CK™

Initial Access (TA0001)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Valid Accounts (T1078)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

License

Elastic License v2(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type: New Terms Rule
Integration Pack: Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns: logs-github.audit-*
Related Integrations: github(external, opens in a new tab or window)
Query

✄𐘗text code block:
✄𐘗event.dataset:"github.audit" and event.category:"configuration" and
github.user_agent:* and github.hashed_token:* and
github.programmatic_access_type:("OAuth access token" or "Fine-grained personal access token")

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect First Occurrence of User Agent For a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(external, opens in a new tab or window).