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Link: Recipient email address in 'eta' parameter

Description

Detects links containing the recipient's email address in the 'eta' query parameter, a technique commonly used to personalize malicious links and track targets.

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Created Jan 27th, 2026 • Last updated Jan 27th, 2026
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type.inbound
and length(recipients.to) == 1
and any(body.links,
        // eta is the only key
        length(keys(.href_url.query_params_decoded)) == 1
        and (
          // the recpieints email domain is in the value
          // we've seen cases where `.` in the local part are not in the value, thus we rely on domain only
          strings.icontains(.href_url.query_params_decoded["eta"][0],
                            recipients.to[0].email.domain.domain
          )
          // support base64 form as well
          or strings.icontains(strings.decode_base64(.href_url.query_params_decoded["eta"][0]
                               ),
                               recipients.to[0].email.domain.domain
          )
        )
)
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