• Sublime Core Feed
High Severity

Brand impersonation: Github

Labels

Credential Phishing
Impersonation: Brand
Lookalike domain
Social engineering
Header analysis
Sender analysis

Description

Impersonation of Github.

References

Sublime Security
Created Aug 17th, 2023 • Last updated Jul 16th, 2025
Feed Source
Sublime Core Feed
Source
GitHub
type.inbound
and not strings.ilike(sender.display_name,
                      '*course*',
                      '*bootcamp*',
                      '*training*'
)
and (
  strings.ilike(sender.display_name, '*github*')
  or strings.ilike(sender.email.email, '*github*')
  or strings.ilevenshtein(sender.email.domain.sld, 'github') <= 1
)
// negating listservs
and not (
  any(headers.hops, any(.fields, .name == "List-Unsubscribe"))
  and strings.contains(sender.display_name, "via")
)
and sender.email.domain.root_domain not in (
  'github.com',
  'thegithubshop.com',
  'gitlab.com',
  'itthub.net',
  'githubsupport.com',
  'gtmhub.com',
  'githubstatus.com',
  'githubnext.com',
  'lithub.com',
  'icims.com',
  'bithub.email',
  'goldcast.io',
  'luma-mail.com', // GitHub's event invitation software
  'github.events' // GitHub event newsletters
)

// 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
)
and (
  not profile.by_sender().solicited
  or (
    profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
    and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign
  )
)
and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign
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