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Callback phishing via Google Group abuse

Labels

Callback Phishing
Free email provider
Impersonation: Brand
Social engineering
File analysis
Natural Language Understanding
Optical Character Recognition
Sender analysis

Description

A fraudulent invoice/receipt found in the body of the message, delivered via a Google Group mailing list.

References

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Sublime Security
Created Dec 21st, 2023 • Last updated Apr 23rd, 2024
Feed Source
Sublime Core Feed
Source
GitHub
type.inbound
and length(attachments) < 5
and sender.email.domain.domain == "googlegroups.com"
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")
                      )
                    )
                    // exclude images taken with mobile cameras and screenshots from Apple
                    and (
                      .key == "DeviceManufacturer"
                      and .value == "Apple Computer Inc."
                    )
            )
            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 (
  not profile.by_sender().solicited
  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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