Low Severity

Link: Gmail confidential mode message with suspicious recipient patterns

Description

Detects Gmail confidential mode messages where the sender is the only recipient or there are no valid recipients, a pattern used to deliver actor-controlled content that cannot be scanned.

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Sublime Security
Created Oct 7th, 2026 • Last updated Oct 7th, 2026
Source
type.inbound
and any(body.current_thread.links,
        .href_url.domain.domain == "confidential-mail.google.com"
        and strings.istarts_with(.href_url.path, "/msg/")
)
and (
  // self sender
  (
    length(recipients.to) == 1
    and recipients.to[0].email.email == sender.email.email
  )
  // no valid recipients at all
  or (
    length(filter(recipients.to, .email.domain.valid)) == 0
    and not length(filter(recipients.cc, .email.domain.valid)) == 1
  )
)
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