Probe: Primary Account Numbers (PAN)

About

The Primary Account Number (PAN) or Band Card Number are found on payment cards, such as credit cards and debit cards.They have a certain amount of internal structure and share a common numbering scheme. Bank card numbers are allocated in accordance with ISO/IEC 7812.

Configuration

probe.pan.ignore

List of hexadecimal characters that are ignored in between sequences of potential PAN characters. You may chose to ignore characters such as NULL, space or other whitespace characters.

probe.pan.format

Default reporting format. Available format options:

Option Description
card_number The full credit card number.
card_number_masked The masked credit card number, suitable for printing in reports.
company Company that issued the credit card number.
filename Full path to the file.
filename_relative Path to the file relative to the current working directory.
line Line number of find.
probe.pan.limit

The maximum number of findings reported per file. Set to 0 to disable the limit.

Reference documents

  • PCI-DSS v2.0 published October, 2010
  • ISO/IEC 7812-1:2006, Identification cards, Identification of issuers, Part 1: Numbering system
  • ISO/IEC 7812-2:2007, Identification cards, Identification of issuers, Part 2: Application and registration procedures
  • US patent 2950048, Computer for verifying numbers
  • List of issuer identification numbers

Merchant Reference documents