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Link: Credential Phishing via WordPress

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Credential Phishing
Social engineering
Free subdomain host
URL analysis
Header analysis
Computer Vision

Description

Detects when non-WordPress senders link to suspended or malicious WordPress blog sites, commonly used to redirect users to credential harvesting pages.

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Created Apr 11th, 2025 • Last updated Apr 11th, 2025
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type.inbound
and sender.email.domain.root_domain != "wordpress.com"
// there are few links
and 0 < length(body.links) <= 5
// there are wordpress links
and any(body.links,
        .href_url.domain.root_domain == "wordpress.com"
        and .href_url.domain.domain != "wordpress.com"
)
// a single link to wordpress site
and length(filter(body.links,
                  .href_url.domain.root_domain == "wordpress.com"
                  and .href_url.domain.domain != "wordpress.com"
           )
) == 1

// not a reply
and length(headers.references) == 0
and headers.in_reply_to is null

// we detect the wordpress page has phishing
and any(filter(body.links, .href_url.domain.root_domain == "wordpress.com"),
        ml.link_analysis(.).credphish.disposition == "phishing"
        or strings.icontains(ml.link_analysis(.).final_dom.display_text,
                             'This blog has been archived or suspended in accordance with our Terms of Service'
        )
)
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