Medium Severity
Link: Referrer Anonymization Service From Untrusted Sender
Description
Detects messages containing links that utilize a referrer anonymization service. The rule examines senders who are either not in a trusted domain list or have failed DMARC authentication despite being from a trusted domain.
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Sublime Security
Created Mar 12th, 2025 • Last updated Mar 12th, 2025
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Source
type.inbound
and any(body.links,
// href.li
(
.href_url.domain.root_domain == "href.li"
and .href_url.query_params is not null
)
// deref-mail
or (
strings.istarts_with(.href_url.path, '/mail/client/')
and strings.icontains(.href_url.query_params, 'redirectUrl=')
// this seems to be a common behavior for gmx users
and not sender.email.domain.domain in ("gmx.de", "gmx.net")
and not (
sender.email.domain.domain == "mail.com"
and any(headers.domains, .root_domain == "mail.com")
)
// remove any links that include org domains
and not any($org_domains,
strings.icontains(..href_url.query_params, .)
)
// remove any links that are to common "signature" sites
// this does open up some FNs due to abuse of redirects of these sites
// if FNs are obsevered, we should tighten the logic of these to account
// for the redirect behavior
and not any(['facebook.com', 'x.com', 'twitter.com', 'instagram.com'],
strings.icontains(..href_url.query_params, .)
)
// remove links which contain the sender domain if the sender doesn't have any malicious messages
and not (
strings.icontains(.href_url.query_params,
sender.email.domain.root_domain
)
and not profile.by_sender_domain().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
)
)
)
// apply sender profile elements specific to the sender_email
and (
profile.by_sender_email().prevalence == "new"
// if they aren't new, there are some condition that still result in a match
or (
// and have been flagged previous
profile.by_sender_email().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
// without any false positives
and not profile.by_sender_email().any_false_positives
)
)
// negate solicited senders
and not profile.by_sender_email().solicited
// negate highly trusted sender domains unless they fail DMARC authentication
and (
(
sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
and not headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
)
or sender.email.domain.root_domain not in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
)
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