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Attachment: PDF with multistage landing - ClickUp abuse

Description

Detects PDF attachments containing ClickUp document links that either redirect to unavailable pages or contain embedded links leading to newly registered domains, free file hosts, URL shorteners, or verified credential theft pages.

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Created Feb 27th, 2026 • Last updated Feb 27th, 2026
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type.inbound
and length(attachments) == 1
and any(attachments,
        .file_type == "pdf"
        and any(file.explode(.),
                .depth == 0
                and length(.scan.url.urls) == 1
                and any(.scan.url.urls,
                        .domain.domain == "doc.clickup.com"
                        and (
                          // landing page has been removed
                          strings.istarts_with(ml.link_analysis(.).final_dom.display_text,
                                               'This page is currently unavailable'
                          )
                          // inspection of links within the doc.clickup.com
                          or any(filter(ml.link_analysis(.).final_dom.links,
                                        .href_url.domain.root_domain != 'clickup.com'
                                        and .href_url.domain.root_domain not in $org_domains
                                 ),
                                 (
                                   // any of those links domains are new
                                   network.whois(.href_url.domain).days_old < 30
                                   // go to free file hosts
                                   or .href_url.domain.root_domain in $free_file_hosts
                                   or .href_url.domain.domain in $free_file_hosts

                                   // go to free subdomains hosts
                                   or (
                                     .href_url.domain.root_domain in $free_subdomain_hosts
                                     // where there is a subdomain
                                     and .href_url.domain.subdomain is not null
                                     and .href_url.domain.subdomain != "www"
                                   )
                                   // go to url shortners
                                   or .href_url.domain.root_domain in $url_shorteners
                                   or .href_url.domain.root_domain in $social_landing_hosts
                                   or .href_url.domain.domain in $url_shorteners
                                   or .href_url.domain.domain in $social_landing_hosts
                                   // or the page has been taken down
                                   or (
                                     // find any links that mention common "action" words
                                     regex.icontains(.display_text,
                                                     '(?:view|click|show|access|download|goto|Validate|Va[il]idar|login|verify|account)'
                                     )
                                     and (
                                       // and when visiting those links, are phishing
                                       ml.link_analysis(., mode="aggressive").credphish.disposition == "phishing"

                                       // hit a captcha page
                                       or ml.link_analysis(., mode="aggressive").credphish.contains_captcha

                                       // or the page redirects to common website, observed when evasion happens
                                       or (
                                         length(ml.link_analysis(.,
                                                                 mode="aggressive"
                                                ).redirect_history
                                         ) > 0
                                         and ml.link_analysis(.,
                                                              mode="aggressive"
                                         ).effective_url.domain.root_domain in $tranco_10k
                                       )
                                     )
                                   )
                                 )
                          )
                        )
                )
        )
)
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