Medium Severity
Brand impersonation: Binance
Description
Impersonation of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
References
No references.
Sublime Security
Created Aug 17th, 2023 • Last updated Feb 24th, 2025
Feed Source
Sublime Core Feed
Source
type.inbound
and (
strings.ilike(sender.display_name, '*binance*')
or strings.ilevenshtein(sender.display_name, 'binance') <= 1
or strings.ilike(sender.email.domain.domain, '*binance*')
or strings.ilike(subject.subject, '*binance*')
)
and sender.email.domain.root_domain not in~ (
'binance.com',
'trustwallet.com',
'binance.charity'
)
and any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).entities,
.text == "Binance"
)
and any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).entities,
.name == "financial"
)
and (
any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).entities, .name == "urgency")
or any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).entities,
.name == "request"
)
)
and (
any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).entities,
.text in~ ("withdrawal", "deposit")
)
or any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).intents, .name != "benign")
)
and (
// if this comes from a free email provider,
// flag if org has never sent an email to sender's email before
(
sender.email.domain.root_domain in $free_email_providers
and sender.email.email not in $recipient_emails
)
// if this comes from a custom domain,
// flag if org has never sent an email to sender's domain before
or (
sender.email.domain.root_domain not in $free_email_providers
and sender.email.domain.domain not in $recipient_domains
)
)
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