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Medium Severity

Callback Phishing in body or attachment (untrusted sender)

Labels

Callback Phishing
Out of band pivot
Social engineering
Content analysis
File analysis
Optical Character Recognition
Natural Language Understanding
Sender analysis

Description

Detects callback scams by analyzing text within images of receipts or invoices from untrusted senders.

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Sublime Security
Created Aug 17th, 2023 • Last updated Apr 23rd, 2024
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Source
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type.inbound
and length(attachments) < 5
and (
  any(attachments,
      (.file_type in $file_types_images or .file_type == "pdf")
      and any(file.explode(.),

              // exclude images taken with mobile cameras and screenshots from android
              not any(.scan.exiftool.fields,
                      .key == "Model"
                      or (
                        .key == "Software"
                        and strings.starts_with(.value, "Android")
                      )
                      or (.key == "UserComment" and .value == "Screenshot")
              )
              and any(ml.nlu_classifier(.scan.ocr.raw).intents,
                      .name == "callback_scam" and .confidence == "high"
              )
      )
  )
  or any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).intents,
         .name in ("callback_scam")
         and .confidence == "high"
         and length(body.current_thread.text) < 1500
  )
)
and not (
  any(headers.domains, .domain == "smtp-out.gcp.bigcommerce.net")
  and strings.icontains(body.html.raw, "bigcommerce.com")
)
and (
  (
    profile.by_sender().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
    and not profile.by_sender().solicited
  )
  or (
    profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
    and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
  )
)

// 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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