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Medium Severity

Attachment: PDF with Microsoft Purview message impersonation

Description

Detects PDF attachments containing text that impersonates Microsoft Purview secure message notifications, potentially used to trick users into believing they have received legitimate secure communications from Microsoft services.

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Sublime Security
Created Nov 10th, 2025 • Last updated Nov 10th, 2025
Source
type.inbound
and any(filter(attachments, .file_extension == 'pdf'),
        any(ml.nlu_classifier(beta.ocr(.).text).topics,
            .name == 'Secure Message' and .confidence == 'high'
        )
        and strings.icontains(beta.ocr(.).text, "Microsoft Purview Message")
)
// 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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