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Medium Severity

Brand impersonation: PNC

Labels

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

Description

Impersonation of PNC Financial Services

References

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Sublime Security
Created Nov 29th, 2023 • Last updated Jul 16th, 2025
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Source
GitHub
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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