impersonation_recipient_sld_in_sender_local_fts.yml

name: "Impersonation: Recipient SLD in sender's email address local part"
type: "rule"
severity: "low"
description: |
  The sender's email address local part contains the recipients SLD,
  the sender's domain is not a known org domain, and it's an untrusted sender.
source: |
  type.inbound
  // check that there's at least 1 sus attachment, link, or body text
  and (
    length(attachments) > 0
    // this must be run in user environments to not flag,
    // not the Analyzer
    or any(body.links, .href_url.domain.domain not in $org_domains)
    or any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).intents,
           .name != "benign" and .confidence == "high"
    )
  )
  and (
    any(recipients.to,
        (
          strings.contains(sender.email.local_part, .email.domain.sld)
          // checking to ensure no FPs, like "me" in "me.com"
          and length(.email.domain.sld) > 3
        )
    )
  )
  // negating listservs
  and not (
      any(headers.hops, any(.fields, .name == "List-Unsubscribe"))
      and strings.contains(sender.display_name, "via")
  )
  and sender.email.domain.root_domain not in $org_domains
  and sender.email.domain.root_domain not in  ("medallia.com", "icims.com", "workday.com")
  and (
    profile.by_sender().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
    or (
      profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
      and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
    )
  )
attack_types:
  - "Credential Phishing"
tactics_and_techniques:
  - "Social engineering"
detection_methods:
  - "Header analysis"
  - "Sender analysis"
id: "926f3b53-415c-590e-b5f7-a15c6d9e62c2"