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Medium Severity

Brand Impersonation: AliExpress

Labels

Callback Phishing
Credential Phishing
Impersonation: Brand
Social engineering
Content analysis
Header analysis
URL analysis

Description

Detects messages impersonating AliExpress by matching known footer text and social media links, while confirming the sender is not legitimately from AliExpress or its infrastructure.

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Sublime Security
Created Apr 28th, 2025 • Last updated Apr 28th, 2025
Feed Source
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Source
GitHub
type.inbound
and (
  // the address in the footer
  strings.icontains(body.current_thread.text,
                    '26/F Tower One, Times Square, 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay'
  )
  // the social links in the footer
  or (
    length(filter(body.links,
                  strings.icontains(.href_url.url,
                                    'https://www.facebook.com/aliexpressbr'
                  )
                  or strings.icontains(.href_url.url,
                                       'https://twitter.com/aliexpressbr'
                  )
                  or strings.icontains(.href_url.url,
                                       'https://www.youtube.com/user/AliExpressChannel'
                  )
                  or strings.icontains(.href_url.url,
                                       'https://www.instagram.com/aliexpressbr'
                  )
                  // whatsapp
                  or strings.icontains(.href_url.url,
                                       'https://wa.me/8657186563839'
                  )
                  // messenger
                  or strings.icontains(.href_url.url, 'https://m.me/AliExpress')
           )
    ) >= 4
  )
)
// not from AliExpress or Alibaba
and not (
  sender.email.domain.root_domain in ("aliexpress.com", "alibaba.com")
  and headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
)
// did not traverse the parent org's mail server
and not (any(headers.domains, .root_domain in ('aliyun-inc.com')))
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