Medium Severity

Service abuse: Self-service platform redirecting to newly registered suspicious domain

Description

Detects inbound emails containing links to self-service creation platforms that ultimately redirect to newly registered domains (less than 30 days old) using suspicious top-level domains, indicating potential abuse of legitimate services.

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Created Sep 10th, 2026 • Last updated Sep 10th, 2026
Source
type.inbound
and any(body.current_thread.links,
        .href_url.domain.root_domain in $self_service_creation_platform_domains
        and any(ml.link_analysis(.).final_dom.links,
                network.whois(.href_url.domain).days_old < 30
                and .href_url.domain.tld in $suspicious_tlds
        )
)
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