High Number of Cloned GitHub Repos From PAT

Detects a high number of unique private repo clone events originating from a single personal access token within a short time period.

Rule type: threshold

Rule indices:

logs-github.audit-*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References: None

Tags:

Domain: Cloud
Use Case: Threat Detection
Use Case: UEBA
Tactic: Execution
Data Source: Github

Version: 1

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

edit

event.dataset:"github.audit" and event.category:"configuration" and event.action:"git.clone" and
github.programmatic_access_type:("OAuth access token" or "Fine-grained personal access token") and
github.repository_public:false

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
Technique:
- Name: Serverless Execution
- ID: T1648
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1648/

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