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Medium Severity

Open Redirect: adnxs.com

Labels

Credential Phishing
Malware/Ransomware
Open redirect
Sender analysis
URL analysis

Description

Message contains use of the adnxs.com redirect with getuid parameter. This has been exploited in phishing campaigns to redirect users to malicious sites.

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Sublime Security
Created Mar 18th, 2025 • Last updated Apr 28th, 2025
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type.inbound
and any(body.links,
        (
          .href_url.domain.domain == "ib.adnxs.com"
          and strings.icontains(.href_url.path, '/getuid')
          // Make sure the redirect is not going back to adnxs.com
          and not regex.icontains(.href_url.query_params,
                                  'getuid\?(?:https?(?:%3a|:))?(?:%2f|\/){2}[^&]*adnxs\.com(?:\&|\/|$|%2f)'
          )
        )
        // second form of an open redirect
        or (
          .href_url.domain.domain == "secure.adnxs.com"
          and strings.icontains(.href_url.query_params, 'redir=')
          // Make sure the redirect is not going back to adnxs.com
          and not regex.icontains(.href_url.query_params,
                                  'redir=(?:https?(?:%3a|:))?(?:%2f|\/){2}[^&]*adnxs\.com(?:\&|\/|$|%2f)'
          )
        )
)
and not sender.email.domain.root_domain == "adnxs.com"
and not sender.email.domain.root_domain == "appnexus.com"

// 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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