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High Severity

Attachment: Decoy PDF Author (Julie P.)

Labels

Credential Phishing
Impersonation: Brand
PDF
File analysis
Content analysis
Sender analysis

Description

This detection rule matches on messages containing one or more Decoy PDF attachments with metadata discovered to have been assoicated with malicious email campaigns featuring CrowdStrike, DocuSign, Human Resource and password expiration lures.

References

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Sublime Security
Created Jul 26th, 2024 • Last updated Oct 2nd, 2024
Feed Source
Sublime Core Feed
Source
GitHub
type.inbound
and length(attachments) > 0
and any(attachments,
        .size <= 250000
        and .file_extension == "pdf"
        and any(file.explode(.),
                (
                  .scan.exiftool.producer == "DocFly"
                  or any(.scan.exiftool.fields,
                         .key == "XMPToolkit"
                         and strings.icontains(.value, 'DynaPDF')
                  )
                )
                and (
                  any(.scan.exiftool.fields,
                      .key == "CreatorTool"
                      and .value == "Acrobat PDFMaker 24 for Word"
                  )
                  or any(.scan.exiftool.fields,
                         .key == "ContentTypeId"
                         and .value == "2.2388136001807807e+43"
                  )
                  or any(.scan.exiftool.fields,
                         .key == "Creator"
                         and .value in ('Julie Peters', 'Julie Pieters')
                  )
                  or any(.scan.exiftool.fields,
                         .key == "Author"
                         and .value in ('Julie Peters', 'Julie Pieters')
                  )
                )
        )
)
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
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