
Summary
The rule titled 'GitHub Supply Chain - Software Installation Tool User Agents' is designed to monitor GitHub audit logs for suspicious user agents associated with software installation tools such as npm, pip, and yarn. Given that these package managers should operate at the registry level and not perform direct actions on GitHub, their presence in audit logs may signify malicious activities including supply chain attacks and credential theft. Specific indicators of concern include spoofed user agents trying to blend in, compromised systems using stolen GitHub tokens, and automated malicious actions masquerading as legitimate package usage. As the analysis indicates a lack of legitimate npm/yarn/pip user agents in GitHub audit logs, any detection of these requires immediate investigation for potential security compromises.
Categories
- Cloud
- Application
Data Sources
- User Account
- Application Log
ATT&CK Techniques
- T1195.002
Created: 2025-09-09