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Description

Detects messages sent from a user to themselves containing a fake PDF icon from Google's CDN, claiming to have an attachment while only containing images, and including links that appear to be PDF files.

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Created Dec 12th, 2025 • Last updated Jan 12th, 2026
Source
type.inbound
// pdf image
and strings.contains(body.html.raw,
                     'https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_Naq6rm1GwC4XYZepCUQtEMnJ-r-HjyX_C5lBU7lpxQk1OIDV7vvQYvSJQWYmQCzG8moTgX3Wak625OtyHWRinVeUJs7K710JiIZ4JNXVpTmC8PJjV4K34GsBA=s0-d-e1-ft#https://res-1.cdn.office.net/assets/mail/file-icon/png/pdf_16x16.png'
)
// mentions attachments but there are none or just images with no pdfs
and strings.starts_with(body.current_thread.text, 'Please see attached.')
and all(attachments, .file_type in $file_types_images)
// self sender
and (
  length(recipients.to) == 1
  and sender.email.email == recipients.to[0].email.email
)
// display text ends with .pdf
and any(body.current_thread.links,
        strings.ends_with(.display_text, '.pdf')
        and .href_url.domain.subdomain is not null
        and .visible
        and not (
          .href_url.domain.root_domain == "googleusercontent.com"
          and strings.istarts_with(.href_url.path, "/mail-sig")
        )
)
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