Description

Detects messages where the sender is impersonating GoDaddy through display name manipulation or lookalike domains, while not being legitimately authenticated from GoDaddy's infrastructure.

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Sublime Security
Created Aug 1st, 2025 • Last updated Sep 23rd, 2026
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type.inbound
and (
  strings.icontains(sender.display_name, 'godaddy')
  or strings.ilevenshtein(sender.display_name, 'godaddy') <= 1
  or strings.icontains(sender.email.domain.domain, 'godaddy')
)
and not (
  sender.email.domain.root_domain in (
    "godaddy.com",
    "registry.godaddy",
    "sucuri.net"
  )
  and headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
)
and not profile.by_sender().solicited
// negate highly trusted sender domains unless they fail DMARC authentication
and not (
  sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
  and coalesce(headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass, false)
)
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