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Generic Service Abuse From Newly Registered Domain

Labels

BEC/Fraud
Callback Phishing
Credential Phishing
Evasion
Social engineering
Header analysis
Sender analysis
Whois

Description

Detects messages from services that write the true sender to the reply-to field, where the sender has no prior legitimate message history and is newly registered. Indicative of service abuse.

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Sublime Security
Created Apr 15th, 2025 • Last updated Apr 15th, 2025
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type.inbound
and any(headers.reply_to, network.whois(.email.domain).days_old < 30)
and sender.email.domain.domain in $replyto_service_domains
// 
// This rule makes use of a beta feature and is subject to change without notice
// using the beta feature in custom rules is not suggested until it has been formally released
// 
and not beta.profile.by_reply_to().solicited
and not beta.profile.by_reply_to().any_messages_benign
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