Attempt to Revoke Okta API Tokenedit

Identifies attempts to revoke an Okta API token. An adversary may attempt to revoke or delete an Okta API token to disrupt an organization’s business operations.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-okta*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Identity
  • Okta
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Monitoring

Version: 6 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.13.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positivesedit

If the behavior of revoking Okta API tokens is expected, consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives.

Investigation guideedit

Config

The Okta Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

Rule queryedit

event.dataset:okta.system and event.action:system.api_token.revoke

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version historyedit

Version 6 (7.13.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 5 (7.12.0 release)
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Version 4 (7.11.2 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 3 (7.11.0 release)
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Version 2 (7.10.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and
    event.action:system.api_token.revoke