Elastic Security Detection Rules

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

Last updated 10 months ago on 2025-03-20
Created 2 years ago on 2023-10-11

About

A new PAT was used for a GitHub user not previously seen in the last 14 days.
Tags
Domain: CloudUse Case: Threat DetectionUse Case: UEBATactic: PersistenceRule Type: BBRData Source: GithubLanguage: kuery
Severity
low
Risk Score
21
MITRE ATT&CK™

Persistence (TA0003)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Account Manipulation (T1098)(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
text code block:
event.dataset:"github.audit" and event.category:"configuration" and
github.hashed_token:* and user.name:* and
github.programmatic_access_type:("OAuth access token" or "Fine-grained personal access token")

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect First Occurrence of Personal Access Token (PAT) Use For a GitHub User 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).