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Medium Severity

Brand impersonation: Okta

Labels

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

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
Feed Source
Sublime Core Feed
Source
GitHub
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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