Description

Message contains use of the convertcart.com redirect. This has been exploited in the wild.

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Sublime Security
Created Feb 24th, 2025 • Last updated Sep 23rd, 2026
Source
type.inbound
// convertcart is used in benign messages, however, they commonly have many links
// ensure messages contain less than 10 links convertcart.com to ensure higher fidelity matching of malicious messages
and length(filter(body.links, .href_url.domain.root_domain == "convertcart.com")
) < 10
and any(body.links,
        .href_url.domain.root_domain == "convertcart.com"
        and strings.iends_with(.href_url.path, '/click')
        and strings.icontains(.href_url.query_params, 'url=')
        and not regex.icontains(.href_url.query_params,
                                'url=(?:https?(?:%3a|:))?(?:%2f|\/){2}[^&]*convertcart\.com(?:\&|\/|$|%2f)'
        )
        and not strings.icontains(.href_url.query_params,
                                  sender.email.domain.root_domain
        )
)
// remove uses that originate from convertcart.com
and not any(headers.domains,
            .root_domain in ("convertcart.com", "convertc.com")
)
// negate highly trusted sender domains unless they fail DMARC authentication
and not (
  sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
  and coalesce(headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass, false)
)
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