Medium Severity

Service abuse: Dropbox Paper with copy-paste instructions

Labels

Credential Phishing
Social engineering
Free file host
Evasion
Content analysis
URL analysis

Description

Detects messages containing copy-paste instructions with links to Dropbox Paper documents, commonly used to bypass security controls by instructing users to manually navigate to malicious content.

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Sublime Security
Created May 7th, 2026 • Last updated May 7th, 2026
Feed Source
Sublime Core Feed
Source
GitHub
type.inbound
and strings.icontains(body.current_thread.text, 'copy')
and strings.icontains(body.current_thread.text, 'paste')
and any(body.current_thread.links,
        strings.icontains(.display_url.url, 'https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/')
        and strings.icontains(.display_url.url, '.paper')
)
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