Medium Severity
Brand impersonation: Okta
Description
Impersonation of Okta, an identity and access management company.
References
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Sublime Security
Created Nov 30th, 2023 • Last updated Jul 16th, 2025
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Source
type.inbound
and (
regex.icontains(sender.display_name, '\bOkta\b')
or strings.ilike(sender.email.domain.domain, '*Okta*')
or strings.ilike(subject.subject, '*Okta*')
)
and not (
length(headers.references) > 0
or any(headers.hops, any(.fields, strings.ilike(.name, "In-Reply-To")))
)
and not (
sender.email.domain.root_domain in~ (
'oktacdn.com',
'okta.com',
'okta-emea.com',
'okta-gov.com',
'oktapreview.com',
'polaris.me'
)
and headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
)
and any(ml.logo_detect(beta.message_screenshot()).brands,
.name == "Okta" and .confidence in ("medium", "high")
)
and (
profile.by_sender().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
or (
profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign
)
)
// negate okta relay
and not any(distinct(headers.domains, .domain is not null),
.domain == "mailrelay.okta.com"
)
// 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
)
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