Suspicious mailer received from Gmail servers
Mailer is atypical of sends from Gmail infrastructure. Observed sending callback phishing and general spam.
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1name: "Suspicious mailer received from Gmail servers"
2description: "Mailer is atypical of sends from Gmail infrastructure. Observed sending callback phishing and general spam."
3type: "rule"
4severity: "low"
5source: |
6 type.inbound
7 and (
8 strings.ilike(headers.mailer,
9 "Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000",
10 "PHPMailer*",
11 "nodemailer*"
12 )
13 or any(headers.hops, any(.fields, .value == "Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE"))
14 )
15 and (
16 any(headers.hops, .index == 0 and .received.server.raw == "smtp.gmail.com")
17 or headers.return_path.domain.root_domain in ("gmail.com", "googlemail.com")
18 )
19 and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
20tags:
21 - "Attack surface reduction"
22attack_types:
23 - "Callback Phishing"
24 - "Spam"
25tactics_and_techniques:
26 - "Free email provider"
27 - "Social engineering"
28detection_methods:
29 - "Header analysis"
30id: "f05f04ee-1234-5a28-98d9-54510c62e1f6"