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Medium Severity

Attachment: Fake attachment image lure

Labels

Credential Phishing
Malware/Ransomware
Evasion
Image as content
Social engineering
File analysis
Natural Language Understanding
Optical Character Recognition

Description

Message (or attached message) contains an image impersonating an Outlook attachment button.

References

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Sublime Security
Created Dec 11th, 2023 • Last updated Jul 19th, 2024
Feed Source
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Source
GitHub
type.inbound
and (
  // fake file attachment preview in original email
  any(attachments,
      .file_type in $file_types_images
      and (
        any(ml.logo_detect(.).brands, .name == "FakeAttachment")
        or (
          .size < 30000
          and any(file.explode(.),
                  strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, 'sent you')
                  // the attached image includes a filesize string
                  and regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw,
                                      '\b\d+.\d{1,2}\s?(k|m)b(\s|$)'
                  )
          )
        )
      )
  )
  // fake file attachment preview in attached EML
  or any(attachments,
         (.content_type == "message/rfc822" or .file_extension == "eml")
         and any(file.parse_eml(.).attachments,
                 .file_type in $file_types_images
                 and (
                   any(ml.logo_detect(.).brands, .name == "FakeAttachment")
                   or (
                     .size < 30000
                     and any(file.explode(.),
                             strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, 'sent you')
                             // the attached image includes a filesize string
                             and regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw,
                                                 '\b\d+.\d{1,2}\s?(k|m)b(\s|$)'
                             )
                     )
                   )
                 )
         )
  )
)

// 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
)
and (
  not profile.by_sender().solicited
  or profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
)
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