diff --git a/.tekton/pull-request.yaml b/.tekton/pull-request.yaml
index d7172aeae9..5b4271e893 100644
--- a/.tekton/pull-request.yaml
+++ b/.tekton/pull-request.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ metadata:
   name: build-definitions-pull-request
   annotations:
     pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/on-cel-expression: (event == "pull_request" && target_branch == "main" && ( !has(body.pull_request) || !body.pull_request.draft) ) || (event == "push" && target_branch.startsWith("gh-readonly-queue/main/"))
-    pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/task: "[task/git-clone/0.1/git-clone.yaml, .tekton/tasks/buildah.yaml, .tekton/tasks/task-lint.yaml, .tekton/tasks/e2e-test.yaml, task/sast-snyk-check/0.2/sast-snyk-check.yaml]"
+    pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/task: "[task/git-clone/0.1/git-clone.yaml, .tekton/tasks/buildah.yaml, .tekton/tasks/task-lint.yaml, .tekton/tasks/e2e-test.yaml, task/sast-snyk-check/0.2/sast-snyk-check.yaml, task/sast-unicode-check/0.1/sast-unicode-check.yaml]"
     pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/max-keep-runs: "5"
 spec:
   params:
@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ spec:
         workspaces:
           - name: workspace
             workspace: workspace
+      - name: sast-unicode-check
+        runAfter:
+          - build-container
+        taskRef:
+          name: sast-unicode-check
+        workspaces:
+          - name: workspace
+            workspace: workspace
       - name: build-container
         runAfter:
           - task-lint-check
diff --git a/task/sast-unicode-check/0.1/README.md b/task/sast-unicode-check/0.1/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5a295dd68c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/task/sast-unicode-check/0.1/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# sast-unicode-check task
+
+## Description:
+
+The sast-unicode-check task uses [find-unicode-control](https://github.com/siddhesh/find-unicode-control.git) tool to perform Static Application Security Testing (SAST) to look for non-printable unicode characters in all text files in a source tree.
+
+## Parameters:
+
+| name                         | description                                                                                                                                   | Default Value                                                                                   | Required |
+|------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|
+| FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_GIT_URL | URL from repository to find unicode control.                                                                                                  | "https://github.com/siddhesh/find-unicode-control.git#c2accbfbba7553a8bc1ebd97089ae08ad8347e58" | No       |
+| FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_ARGS    | arguments for find-unicode-control command.                                                                                                   | "-p bidi -v -d -t"                                                                              | No       |
+| KFP_GIT_URL                  | Known False Positives git URL, optionally taking a revision delimited by #; If empty, filtering of known false positives is disabled.         | ""                                                                                              | No       |
+| PROJECT_NVR                  | Name-Version-Release (NVR) of the scanned project. It is used to find path exclusions (it is optional).                                       | ""                                                                                              | No       |
+| RECORD_EXCLUDED              | Whether to record the excluded findings (defaults to false). If `true`, the the excluded findings will be stored in `excluded-findings.json`. | "false"                                                                                         | No       |
+
+## Results:
+
+| name          | description                              |
+|---------------|------------------------------------------|
+| TEST_OUTPUT   | Tekton task test output.                 |
+
+## Source repository for image:
+
+https://github.com/konflux-ci/konflux-test
+
+## Additional links:
+
+* https://github.com/siddhesh/find-unicode-control.git
diff --git a/task/sast-unicode-check/0.1/sast-unicode-check.yaml b/task/sast-unicode-check/0.1/sast-unicode-check.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cacdaa61ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/task/sast-unicode-check/0.1/sast-unicode-check.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,259 @@
+apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1
+kind: Task
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "0.1"
+  annotations:
+    tekton.dev/pipelines.minVersion: "0.12.1"
+    tekton.dev/tags: "konflux"
+  name: sast-unicode-check
+spec:
+  description: >-
+    Scans source code for non-printable unicode characters in all text files.
+  results:
+    - description: Tekton task test output.
+      name: TEST_OUTPUT
+  params:
+    - name: image-url
+      type: string
+      description: Image URL.
+      default: ""
+    - name: FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_GIT_URL
+      type: string
+      description: URL from repository to find unicode control.
+      default: "https://github.com/siddhesh/find-unicode-control.git#c2accbfbba7553a8bc1ebd97089ae08ad8347e58"
+    - name: FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_ARGS
+      type: string
+      description: arguments for find-unicode-control command.
+      default: "-p bidi -v -d -t"
+    - name: KFP_GIT_URL
+      type: string
+      description: URL from repository to download known false positives files.
+      # FIXME: Red Hat internal projects will default to https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/osh/known-false-positives.git when KONFLUX-4530 is resolved
+      default: ""
+    - name: PROJECT_NVR
+      type: string
+      description: |
+        Name-Version-Release (NVR) of the scanned project.
+        It is used to find path exclusions (it is optional).
+      default: ""
+    - name: RECORD_EXCLUDED
+      type: string
+      description: |
+        Whether to record the excluded findings (defaults to false).
+        If `true`, the the excluded findings will be stored in `excluded-findings.json`.
+      default: "false"
+    - name: caTrustConfigMapName
+      type: string
+      description: The name of the ConfigMap to read CA bundle data from.
+      default: trusted-ca
+    - name: caTrustConfigMapKey
+      type: string
+      description: The name of the key in the ConfigMap that contains the CA bundle data.
+      default: ca-bundle.crt
+  volumes:
+    - name: trusted-ca
+      configMap:
+        name: $(params.caTrustConfigMapName)
+        items:
+          - key: $(params.caTrustConfigMapKey)
+            path: ca-bundle.crt
+        optional: true
+  steps:
+    - name: sast-unicode-check
+      image: quay.io/redhat-appstudio/konflux-test:v1.4.6@sha256:5f298d8d990dfa82023e50029b71b08e19c3c9cedb181dfc4bc86c9ecad8700c
+      # per https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/containers/images/#imagepullpolicy-defaulting
+      # the cluster will set imagePullPolicy to IfNotPresent
+      workingDir: $(workspaces.workspace.path)/hacbs/$(context.task.name)
+      volumeMounts:
+        - mountPath: /mnt/trusted-ca
+          name: trusted-ca
+          readOnly: true
+      env:
+        - name: KFP_GIT_URL
+          value: $(params.KFP_GIT_URL)
+        - name: FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_GIT_URL
+          value: $(params.FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_GIT_URL)
+        - name: FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_ARGS
+          value: $(params.FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_ARGS)
+        - name: PROJECT_NVR
+          value: $(params.PROJECT_NVR)
+        - name: RECORD_EXCLUDED
+          value: $(params.RECORD_EXCLUDED)
+        - name: SOURCE_CODE_DIR
+          value: $(workspaces.workspace.path)
+      script: |
+        #!/usr/bin/env bash
+        set -exuo pipefail
+
+        # shellcheck source=/dev/null
+        . /utils.sh
+        trap 'handle_error $(results.TEST_OUTPUT.path)' EXIT
+
+        SCAN_PROP=""
+
+        ca_bundle=/mnt/trusted-ca/ca-bundle.crt
+        if [ -f "$ca_bundle" ]; then
+          echo "INFO: Using mounted CA bundle: $ca_bundle"
+          cp -vf $ca_bundle /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors
+          update-ca-trust
+        fi
+
+        # Clone the source code from upstream repo
+        GIT_URL=$(echo "${FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_GIT_URL}" | awk -F'#' '{print $1}')
+        REV=$(echo "${FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_GIT_URL}" | awk -F'#' '{print $2}')
+
+        # Clone find-unicode-control repository
+        if ! git clone "${GIT_URL}" find-unicode-control; then
+            echo "Failed to clone the repository: ${GIT_URL}" >&2
+            note="Task $(context.task.name) failed: For details, check Tekton task log."
+            ERROR_OUTPUT=$(make_result_json -r ERROR -t "$note")
+            echo "${ERROR_OUTPUT}" | tee "$(results.TEST_OUTPUT.path)"
+            exit 1
+        fi
+
+        if [[ -n "${REV}" ]]; then
+            if ! git -C ./find-unicode-control/ checkout "${REV}"; then
+                echo "Failed to checkout the repository: ${GIT_URL} to ${REV}" >&2
+                note="Task $(context.task.name) failed: For details, check Tekton task log."
+                ERROR_OUTPUT=$(make_result_json -r ERROR -t "$note")
+                echo "${ERROR_OUTPUT}" | tee "$(results.TEST_OUTPUT.path)"
+                exit 1
+            fi
+            SCAN_PROP="find-unicode-control-git-url:${FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_GIT_URL}"
+        else
+            git_url_suffix=$(git -C ./find-unicode-control/ rev-parse HEAD)
+            SCAN_PROP="find-unicode-control-git-url:${FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_GIT_URL}#${git_url_suffix}"
+        fi
+
+        # Find unicode control
+        FUC_EXIT_CODE=0
+        mapfile -t fuc_args <<< "${FIND_UNICODE_CONTROL_ARGS}"
+        LANG=en_US.utf8 ./find-unicode-control/find_unicode_control.py "${fuc_args[@]}" "${SOURCE_CODE_DIR}/source" \
+            >raw_sast_unicode_check_out.txt \
+            2>raw_sast_unicode_check_out.log \
+            || FUC_EXIT_CODE=$?
+        if [[ "${FUC_EXIT_CODE}" -ne 0 ]] && [[ "${FUC_EXIT_CODE}" -ne 1 ]]; then
+            echo "Failed to run find-unicode-control command" >&2
+            cat raw_sast_unicode_check_out.log
+            note="Task $(context.task.name) failed: For details, check Tekton task log."
+            ERROR_OUTPUT=$(make_result_json -r ERROR -t "$note")
+            echo "${ERROR_OUTPUT}" | tee "$(results.TEST_OUTPUT.path)"
+            exit 1
+        fi
+
+        # Translate the output format
+        if ! sed -i raw_sast_unicode_check_out.txt -E -e 's|(.*:[0-9]+)(.*)|\1: warning:\2|' -e 's|^|Error: UNICONTROL_WARNING:\n|'; then
+            echo "Error: failed to translate the unicontrol output format" >&2
+            note="Task $(context.task.name) failed: For details, check Tekton task log."
+            ERROR_OUTPUT=$(make_result_json -r ERROR -t "$note")
+            echo "${ERROR_OUTPUT}" | tee "$(results.TEST_OUTPUT.path)"
+            exit 1
+        fi
+
+        # Process all results as configured with CSGERP_OPTS
+        CSGERP_OPTS=(
+            --mode=json
+            --remove-duplicates
+            --embed-context=3
+            --set-scan-prop="${SCAN_PROP}"
+            --strip-path-prefix="${SOURCE_CODE_DIR}"/source/
+        )
+        # In order to generate csdiff/v1, we need to add the whole path of the source code as
+        # sast-unicode-check only provides an URI to embed the context
+        if ! csgrep "${CSGERP_OPTS[@]}" raw_sast_unicode_check_out.txt > processed_sast_unicode_check_out.json 2> processed_sast_unicode_check_out.err; then
+            echo "Error occurred while running csgrep with CSGERP_OPTS:"
+            cat processed_sast_unicode_check_out.err
+            note="Task $(context.task.name) failed: For details, check Tekton task log."
+            ERROR_OUTPUT=$(make_result_json -r ERROR -t "$note")
+            echo "${ERROR_OUTPUT}" | tee "$(results.TEST_OUTPUT.path)"
+            exit 1
+        fi
+
+        csgrep --mode=evtstat processed_sast_unicode_check_out.json
+
+        # Filter known false positives if KFP_GIT_URL is set
+        if [ -n "${KFP_GIT_URL}" ]; then
+            echo "Filtering false positives in results files using ${KFP_GIT_URL}..." >&2
+
+            # Build initial csfilter-kfp command
+            csfilter_kfp_cmd=(
+                csfilter-kfp
+                --verbose
+                --kfp-git-url="${KFP_GIT_URL}"
+            )
+
+            # Append --project-nvr option if PROJECT_NVR is set
+            if [[ -n "${PROJECT_NVR}" ]]; then
+                csfilter_kfp_cmd+=(--project-nvr="${PROJECT_NVR}")
+            fi
+
+            # Append --record-excluded option if RECORD_EXCLUDED is true
+            if [[ "${RECORD_EXCLUDED}" == "true" ]]; then
+                csfilter_kfp_cmd+=(--record-excluded="excluded-findings.json")
+            fi
+
+            if ! "${csfilter_kfp_cmd[@]}" processed_sast_unicode_check_out.json > sast_unicode_check_out.json 2> sast_unicode_check_out.error; then
+                echo "Failed to filter known false positives" >&2
+                cat sast_unicode_check_out.error
+                note="Task $(context.task.name) failed: For details, check Tekton task log."
+                ERROR_OUTPUT=$(make_result_json -r ERROR -t "$note")
+                echo "${ERROR_OUTPUT}" | tee "$(results.TEST_OUTPUT.path)"
+                exit 1
+            fi
+        else
+            echo "KFP_GIT_URL is not set. Skipping false positive filtering." >&2
+            mv processed_sast_unicode_check_out.json sast_unicode_check_out.json
+        fi
+
+        # Generate sarif report
+        csgrep --mode=sarif sast_unicode_check_out.json > sast_unicode_check_out.sarif
+        if [[ "${FUC_EXIT_CODE}" -eq 0 ]]; then
+            note="Task $(context.task.name) success: No finding was detected"
+            ERROR_OUTPUT=$(make_result_json -r SUCCESS -t "$note")
+        elif [[ "${FUC_EXIT_CODE}" -eq 1 ]] && [[ ! -s  sast_unicode_check_out.sarif ]]; then
+            note="Task $(context.task.name) success: Some findings were detected, but filtered by known false positive"
+            ERROR_OUTPUT=$(make_result_json -r SUCCESS -t "$note")
+        else
+            echo "sast-unicode-check test failed because of the following issues:"
+            cat sast_unicode_check_out.json
+            TEST_OUTPUT=
+            parse_test_output "$(context.task.name)" sarif sast_unicode_check_out.sarif  || true
+            note="Task $(context.task.name) failed: For details, check Tekton task log."
+            ERROR_OUTPUT=$(make_result_json -r ERROR -t "$note")
+        fi
+        echo "${TEST_OUTPUT:-${ERROR_OUTPUT}}" | tee "$(results.TEST_OUTPUT.path)"
+    - name: upload
+      image: quay.io/konflux-ci/oras:latest@sha256:f4b891ee3038a5f13cd92ff4f473faad5601c2434d1c6b9bccdfc134d9d5f820
+      workingDir: $(workspaces.workspace.path)/hacbs/$(context.task.name)
+      env:
+        - name: IMAGE_URL
+          value: $(params.image-url)
+      script: |
+        #!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+        if [ -z "${IMAGE_URL}" ]; then
+          echo 'No image-url param provided. Skipping upload.'
+          exit 0;
+        fi
+
+        UPLOAD_FILES="sast_unicode_check_out.sarif excluded-findings.json"
+        for UPLOAD_FILE in ${UPLOAD_FILES}; do
+            if [ ! -f "${UPLOAD_FILE}" ]; then
+              echo "No ${UPLOAD_FILE} exists. Skipping upload."
+              continue
+            fi
+
+            if [ "${UPLOAD_FILES}" == "excluded-findings.json" ]; then
+                MEDIA_TYPE=application/json
+            else
+                MEDIA_TYPE=application/sarif+json
+            fi
+
+            echo "Selecting auth"
+            select-oci-auth "${IMAGE_URL}" > "${HOME}/auth.json"
+            echo "Attaching to ${IMAGE_URL}"
+            oras attach --no-tty --registry-config "$HOME/auth.json" --artifact-type "${MEDIA_TYPE}" "${IMAGE_URL}" "${UPLOAD_FILE}:${MEDIA_TYPE}"
+        done
+  workspaces:
+  - name: workspace
diff --git a/task/sast-unicode-check/OWNERS b/task/sast-unicode-check/OWNERS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..27203edec2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/task/sast-unicode-check/OWNERS
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# See the OWNERS docs: https://go.k8s.io/owners
+approvers:
+  - integration-team
+reviewers:
+  - integration-team