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Attachment: ICS file with excessive custom properties

Description

ICS calendar attachment contains an unusually high number of custom X- properties, which may indicate attempts to hide malicious content or exploit calendar parsing vulnerabilities.

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Created Mar 17th, 2026 • Last updated Mar 17th, 2026
Source
type.inbound
and any(filter(attachments,
               .file_type in~ ('ics')
               or .content_type in ("text/calendar", "application/ics")
        ),
        regex.icount(file.parse_text(.).text,
                     '[\r\n]X-[^\r\n]+\x3b\s?[^\r\n]+:\s*[a-f0-9]{32,}'
        ) > 10
)
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