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Attachment: HTML With Emoji-to-Character Map

Labels

Credential Phishing
Evasion
HTML smuggling
Impersonation: Brand
Scripting
Social engineering
File analysis
HTML analysis
Javascript analysis
Sender analysis

Description

Detects inbound messages containing HTML attachments with an unusually high number of emojis in a list, sent from untrusted or suspicious senders who lack an established sending history or have previous malicious behavior.

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Sublime Security
Created Dec 2nd, 2024 • Last updated Dec 2nd, 2024
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type.inbound
and any(attachments,
        (
          .file_extension in~ ("html", "htm", "shtml", "dhtml")
          or .file_type == "html"
          or .content_type in ("application/octet-stream", "text/html")
        )
        and regex.icount(file.parse_html(.).raw,
                         '[\x{1F300}-\x{1F5FF}\x{1F600}-\x{1F64F}\x{1F680}-\x{1F6FF}\x{1F700}-\x{1F77F}\x{1F780}-\x{1F7FF}\x{1F900}-\x{1F9FF}\x{2600}-\x{26FF}\x{2700}-\x{27BF}\x{2300}-\x{23FF}].{0,10},'
        ) > 10
)
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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