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Medium Severity

Link: Free subdomain host with undisclosed recipients

Description

Detects messages with undisclosed recipients, containing links to free subdomain hosts

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Sublime Security
Created Aug 17th, 2023 • Last updated Jan 12th, 2026
Source
type.inbound
and any(body.links,
        .href_url.domain.root_domain in $free_subdomain_hosts
        and .href_url.domain.subdomain is not null
        and .href_url.domain.subdomain != "www"
        and not (
          .href_url.domain.root_domain == "googleusercontent.com"
          and strings.istarts_with(.href_url.path, "/mail-sig")
        )
)
and (
  length(recipients.to) == 0
  or all(recipients.to, .display_name == "Undisclosed recipients")
)
and length(recipients.cc) == 0
and length(recipients.bcc) == 0

// negate listmailers & benign threads
and not (
  any(headers.hops, any(.fields, .name == "List-Unsubscribe"))
  or any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).intents,
         .name == "benign" and .confidence == "high"
  )
)
and (
  profile.by_sender().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
  or profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
)
and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign
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