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New rule - Display name and subject impersonation using recipient SLD (new sender) #1011

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name: "Display name and subject impersonation using recipient SLD (new sender)"
description: |
The recipient domain's SLD is used in the sender's display name
and in the subject to impersonate the organization.
type: "rule"
severity: "medium"
source: |
type.inbound
and (
// recipient SLD is being impersonated in the subject + display name
(
// these are usually targeted with just 1 recipient,
// but sometimes they CC themselves or have a blank CC
length(recipients.to) + length(recipients.cc) + length(recipients.bcc) <= 2
and any(recipients.to,
// ensure that we're checking the org SLD
.email.domain.sld in $org_slds
and strings.icontains(subject.subject, .email.domain.sld)
and strings.icontains(sender.display_name, .email.domain.sld)
)
)
or (
// accounts for BCC'd messages where the recipients are empty
// if BCC, sometimes the recipient will be the attacker's email
length(recipients.to) + length(recipients.cc) + length(recipients.bcc) <= 2
and strings.icontains(subject.subject, mailbox.email.domain.sld)
and strings.icontains(sender.display_name, mailbox.email.domain.sld)
)
)

and (
// at least 1 link or non-image attachment
(
length(body.links) > 0
// these attacks all use compromosed senders, so we look for a domain
// that doesn't match the sender's domain to weed out legit messages
and any(body.links, .href_url.domain.root_domain != sender.email.domain.root_domain)
)
or length(filter(attachments, .file_type not in $file_types_images)) > 0
)

and not (
strings.contains(sender.display_name, "on behalf of")
and sender.email.domain.root_domain == "microsoftonline.com"
)

and all(recipients.to, .email.email != sender.email.email)

// negate highly trusted sender domains unless they fail DMARC authentication
and (
(
sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
and (
any(distinct(headers.hops, .authentication_results.dmarc is not null),
strings.ilike(.authentication_results.dmarc, "*fail")
)
)
)
or sender.email.domain.root_domain not in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
)
and (
(
profile.by_sender().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
and not profile.by_sender().solicited
)
or (
profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
)
)
and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
attack_types:
- "Credential Phishing"
tactics_and_techniques:
- "Social engineering"
detection_methods:
- "Header analysis"
- "Sender analysis"
id: "cb2b3ed3-268f-5753-9d2b-194d2ee1ed2e"
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