Possible Yellowfin BI JWT Forgery via refresh-tokens Endpoint

PremiumReviewedSigma · Medium · v1
Category
webserver
Author
HuntRule
Published
2026-06-08
Updated
2026-08-28

ATT&CK techniques

Initial Access → Execution
  1. Recon

  2. Resource Dev

  3. Persistence

  4. Priv Esc

  5. Defense Evasion

  6. Cred Access

  7. Discovery

  8. Lateral Movement

  9. Collection

  10. C2

  11. Exfiltration

  12. Impact

What it detects

This rule detects HTTP requests to the Yellowfin BI /api/refresh-tokens endpoint associated with forged JWT abuse. Assetnote used hardcoded signing keys to mint tokens against this API before triggering JNDI-injection remote code execution, so anomalous access here can indicate exploitation.

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Possible Yellowfin BI JWT Forgery via refresh-tokens Endpoint
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Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.