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Description

Detects messages containing a single link with PDF-named display text containing financial phrases that redirects to a free file hosting service, sent without previous message threads.

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Created Aug 22nd, 2025 • Last updated Sep 24th, 2025
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type.inbound
and length(body.links) < 20

// the message does not contain previous threads
and length(body.previous_threads) == 0

// no PDF attachments
and length(filter(attachments, .file_type == "pdf")) == 0
// there is only a single link to the free file host
and length(filter(body.links,
                  .href_url.domain.domain in $free_file_hosts
                  or .href_url.domain.root_domain in $free_file_hosts
                  or .href_url.domain.domain in $self_service_creation_platform_domains
                  or .href_url.domain.root_domain in $self_service_creation_platform_domains
                  or .href_url.domain.domain in $url_shorteners
                  or .href_url.domain.root_domain in $url_shorteners
                  or .href_url.domain.root_domain == "dynamics.com"
           )
) == 1
// there are few distinct domains in the message
and length(distinct(body.links, .href_url.domain.root_domain)) <= 3

// the display_text ends in .pdf and goes to a free file host
and any(body.links,
        strings.iends_with(.display_text, '.pdf')
        and (
          .href_url.domain.domain in $free_file_hosts
          or .href_url.domain.root_domain in $free_file_hosts
          or .href_url.domain.domain in $self_service_creation_platform_domains
          or .href_url.domain.root_domain in $self_service_creation_platform_domains
          or .href_url.domain.domain in $url_shorteners
          or .href_url.domain.root_domain in $url_shorteners
          or .href_url.domain.root_domain == "dynamics.com"
        )
        // the display text is financial related (remittance, invoice, etc)
        and (
          strings.icontains(.display_text, 'payment')
          or regex.icontains(.display_text, 'pay\b')
          or strings.icontains(.display_text, 'remit')
          or strings.icontains(.display_text, 'receipt')
          or strings.icontains(.display_text, 'Distribution')
          or strings.icontains(.display_text, 'payoff')
          or strings.icontains(.display_text, 'Wire Instructions')
          or regex.icontains(.display_text, 'ACH\b')
          or regex.icontains(.display_text, 'EFT\b')
          or strings.istarts_with(.display_text, 'INV')
          or strings.istarts_with(.display_text, 'View RFQ')
          or strings.istarts_with(.display_text, 'Contract')

          // the display text is the subject
          or (.display_text =~ subject.base and length(.display_text) > 0)
        )

        // negate links which make use of google icons inside of a bounding box
        // filter down to the link with the same display text
        and not any(filter(html.xpath(body.html,
                                      '//a[img[@src] or .//img[@src]][.//div[contains(@style, "border:1px solid")] or ancestor::div[contains(@style, "border:1px solid")]]'
                           ).nodes,
                           // the display text is the link we're inspecting
                           ..display_text == .display_text
                    ),
                    // inside this is a reference to the google icon 
                    strings.icontains(.raw, 'gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/')
        )
)
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