Medium Severity
Attachment: Encrypted PDF With Credential Theft Body
Description
Attached PDF is encrypted, and email body contains credential theft language. Seen in-the-wild impersonating e-fax services.
References
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Created Aug 27th, 2024 • Last updated Oct 10th, 2024
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type.inbound
and any(attachments,
.file_type == "pdf"
and any(file.explode(.),
any(.scan.exiftool.fields, .key == "Encryption")
or (
.scan.entropy.entropy > 7
and any(.scan.strings.strings,
strings.icontains(., "/Encrypt")
)
)
)
)
and any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).intents,
.name == "cred_theft" and .confidence in ("medium", "high")
)
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
)
)
// negate highly trusted sender domains unless they fail DMARC authentication
and (
(
sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
and not headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
)
or sender.email.domain.root_domain not in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
)
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