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Medium Severity

Callback Phishing via Calendar Invite

Labels

Callback Phishing
Social engineering
Evasion
File analysis
Header analysis
Natural Language Understanding
Sender analysis

Description

Detects calendar invites containing callback phishing language in the DESCRIPTION of the invite.

References

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Sublime Security
Created Apr 14th, 2025 • Last updated Apr 14th, 2025
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type.inbound
and length(attachments) > 0
and all(attachments, .content_type in ("text/calendar", "application/ics"))
and any(attachments,
        // extract the calendar invite description and use NLU against it
        any(regex.extract(file.parse_text(.).text,
                          'DESCRIPTION:((?:(?:\r?\n[ \t][^\r\n]*)|[^\r\n])*?)(?:\r?\n[A-Z-][A-Z0-9-]*[;:])'
            ),
            any(.groups,
                any(ml.nlu_classifier(.).intents, .name == "callback_scam")
            )
        )
)
and (
  not profile.by_sender().solicited
  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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