Medium Severity
Brand impersonation: PNC
Description
Impersonation of PNC Financial Services
References
No references.
Sublime Security
Created Nov 29th, 2023 • Last updated Jul 16th, 2025
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Source
type.inbound
and (
regex.icontains(sender.display_name, '\PNC\b')
or strings.ilike(sender.email.domain.domain, '*PNC*')
or strings.ilike(subject.subject, '*PNC*')
)
and sender.email.domain.root_domain not in~ ('pnc.com', 'pncbank.com')
and sender.email.domain.tld != "pnc"
and any(ml.logo_detect(beta.message_screenshot()).brands,
.name == "PNC" 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 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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