Medium Severity
Callback phishing via Zoho service abuse
Description
Callback phishing campaigns have been observed abusing Zoho Invoice services to send fraudulent invoices with callback phishing contents.
References
No references.
Sublime Security
Created Jan 10th, 2025 • Last updated Jan 10th, 2025
Feed Source
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Source
type.inbound
// Legitimate Zoho sending infratructure
and (
sender.email.domain.root_domain in ('zohoinvoice.com')
// check for SPF or DMARC passed
and (headers.auth_summary.spf.pass or headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass)
)
and (
// Callback Phishing in body (brand names required)
(
length(attachments) == 0
// brand names are required.
and regex.icontains(body.current_thread.text,
(
"mcafee|norton|geek.{0,5}squad|paypal|ebay|symantec|best buy|lifelock"
)
)
and 3 of (
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*purchase*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*payment*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*transaction*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*subscription*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*antivirus*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*order*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*support*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*help line*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*receipt*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*invoice*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*call*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*cancel*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*renew*'),
strings.ilike(body.current_thread.text, '*refund*')
)
// phone number regex
and any([body.current_thread.text, subject.subject],
regex.icontains(., '\b\+?(\d{1}.)?\(?\d{3}?\)?.\d{3}.?\d{4}\b')
)
)
// all attachments are PDFs with callback phishing indicators Brands Required
or (
length(attachments) < 3
and all(attachments, .file_extension == "pdf")
// the attachment is a pdf with 1 page, and at least 60 ocr chars
and any(attachments,
(
.file_extension == "pdf"
and any(file.explode(.), .scan.exiftool.page_count < 3)
and any(file.explode(.), length(.scan.ocr.raw) > 60)
// 4 of the following strings are found
and (
any(file.explode(.),
4 of (
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "purchase"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "payment"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "transaction"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "subscription"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "antivirus"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "order"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "support"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "help line"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "receipt"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "invoice"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "call"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "helpdesk"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "cancel"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "renew"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "refund"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "amount"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "crypto"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "wallet address"),
regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, '\$\d{3}\.\d{2}\b'),
regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw,
'(\+\d|1.(\()?\d{3}(\))?\D\d{3}\D\d{4})'
),
regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw,
'\+?(\d{1,2})?\s?\(?\d{3}\)?[\s\.\-⋅]{0,5}\d{3}[\s\.\-⋅]{0,5}\d{4}'
)
)
// 1 of the following strings is found, representing common Callback brands
and (
1 of (
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "geek squad"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "lifelock"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "best buy"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "mcafee"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "norton"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "ebay"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "paypal"),
)
// add additional logic for common language for paypal, which is a valid payment method
and not regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "paypal[^\n]+accepted")
and not regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "payment.{0,30}(via|by) paypal")
and not regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, '\d{2,4} norton') // an address, example: 1234 Norton Road
)
)
or any(ml.logo_detect(.).brands,
.name in ("PayPal", "Norton", "GeekSquad", "Ebay")
)
)
)
)
)
)
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