Medium Severity

Evasion: Variation selectors in subject line

Description

Detects inbound messages where invisible Unicode variation selector characters (U+FE00–U+FE0D) are inserted immediately after alphanumeric characters in the subject line. This technique is used to break up recognizable words or phrases at the character level, allowing the text to render normally to recipients while evading keyword-based or pattern-matching detection systems.

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Created Aug 28th, 2026 • Last updated Aug 28th, 2026
Source
type.inbound
and regex.contains(subject.base, '[A-Za-z0-9][\x{FE00}-\x{FE0D}]')
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