Medium Severity

Service abuse: Soundestlink redirect with suspicious indicators

Description

Detects messages containing Soundestlink redirect links that lack proper unsubscribe mechanisms, and lack standard mailing list headers, indicating potential abuse of the service.

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Sublime Security
Created Aug 11th, 2026 • Last updated Aug 11th, 2026
Source
type.inbound
and any(body.current_thread.links,
        .href_url.domain.root_domain == "soundestlink.com"
        and not strings.istarts_with(.href_url.path, '/contactsPreferences/')
)
and length(distinct(filter(body.current_thread.links,
                           .href_url.domain.root_domain == "soundestlink.com"
                           and not strings.istarts_with(.href_url.path,
                                                        '/contactsPreferences/'
                           )
                    ),
                    .href_url.url
           )
) == 1
and not any(headers.hops, any(.fields, .name =~ "List-Unsubscribe"))
and not (
  any(html.xpath(body.html, '//a').nodes, .inner_text =~ "Edit Preferences")
  and any(html.xpath(body.html, '//a').nodes, .inner_text =~ "Unsubscribe")
)
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