Low Severity
Spam: Default Microsoft Exchange Online sender domain (onmicrosoft.com)
Description
The default Microsoft Exchange Online sender domain, onmicrosoft.com, is commonly used to send unwanted and malicious email. Enable this rule in your environment if receiving email from the onmicrosoft.com domain is unexpected behaviour.
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Sublime Security
Created Feb 29th, 2024 • Last updated Jan 10th, 2025
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Source
type.inbound
and (
sender.email.domain.root_domain == "onmicrosoft.com"
or (
strings.icontains(sender.display_name, "onmicrosoft.com")
and sender.email.domain.valid == false
)
)
and length(recipients.to) < 2
and length(body.links) > 0
// bounce-back negations
and not strings.like(sender.email.local_part, "*postmaster*", "*mailer-daemon*", "*administrator*")
and not any(attachments,
.content_type in (
"message/rfc822",
"message/delivery-status",
"text/calendar"
)
or (.content_type == "text/plain" and .file_extension == "ics")
)
// negating legit replies
and not (
(
strings.istarts_with(subject.subject, "RE:")
or strings.istarts_with(subject.subject, "FW:")
or strings.istarts_with(subject.subject, "FWD:")
or regex.imatch(subject.subject, '(\[[^\]]+\]\s?){0,3}(re|fwd?|automat.*)\s?:.*')
or strings.istarts_with(subject.subject, "Réponse automatique")
)
and (
length(headers.references) > 0
and any(headers.hops, any(.fields, strings.ilike(.name, "In-Reply-To")))
)
)
// negating auto-replies
and not (
any(headers.hops,
any(.fields, .name =~ "auto-submitted" and .value =~ "auto-generated")
and any(.fields,
.name =~ "X-MS-Exchange-Generated-Message-Source"
and .value not in ("Antispam Quarantine Agent")
)
)
)
// Microsoft has some legit onmicrosoft domains...
and not (
sender.email.domain.domain == "microsoft.onmicrosoft.com"
and headers.auth_summary.spf.pass
and all(body.links, .href_url.domain.root_domain == "microsoft.com")
)
// construct the proper sender domain and check against known recipients
and not strings.concat(sender.email.domain.subdomain, ".", sender.email.domain.tld) in $recipient_domains
and (
not profile.by_sender().solicited
or (
profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
)
)
and not sender.email.domain.domain in $org_domains
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