Brand impersonation: DocuSign branded attachment lure with no DocuSign links
Detects DocuSign phishing messages with no DocuSign links, a DocuSign logo or verbage within an image or PDF attachment, from an untrusted sender.
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1name: "Brand impersonation: DocuSign branded attachment lure with no DocuSign links"
2description: "Detects DocuSign phishing messages with no DocuSign links, a DocuSign logo or verbage within an image or PDF attachment, from an untrusted sender."
3type: "rule"
4severity: "high"
5source: |
6 type.inbound
7 and (
8 (
9 0 < length(attachments) <= 8
10 and length(filter(attachments, .file_type in $file_types_images)) > 0
11 )
12 or (
13 length(attachments) > 0
14 and all(attachments,
15 .file_type in $file_types_images or .file_type == 'pdf'
16 )
17 )
18 )
19 and (
20 // if there are links, ensure they are not docusign links
21 (
22 length(body.links) != 0
23 and any(body.links,
24 not strings.ilike(.href_url.domain.root_domain, "docusign.*")
25 )
26 )
27 // sometimes there are no body links and it's all in the PDF attachment
28 or length(body.links) == 0
29 )
30 and (
31 // check the image or pdf attachments for Docusign
32 any(filter(attachments,
33 .file_type in $file_types_images or .file_type == 'pdf'
34 ),
35 (
36 any(ml.logo_detect(.).brands, .name == "DocuSign")
37 or any(file.explode(.),
38 strings.ilike(.scan.ocr.raw, "*DocuSign*")
39 and (
40 any(ml.nlu_classifier(.scan.ocr.raw).intents,
41 .name == "cred_theft" and .confidence != "low"
42 )
43 or (
44 regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw,
45 "((re)?view|access|complete(d)?) document(s)?",
46 '[^d][^o][^cd][^ue]sign(?:\b|ature)',
47 "important edocs",
48 // German (Document (check|check|sign|sent))
49 "Dokument (überprüfen|prüfen|unterschreiben|geschickt)",
50 // German (important|urgent|immediate)
51 "(wichtig|dringend|sofort)"
52 )
53 and not strings.count(.scan.ocr.raw, "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n") > 3
54 )
55 )
56 )
57 )
58 and not any(file.explode(.),
59 strings.ilike(.scan.ocr.raw,
60 "*DocuSigned By*",
61 "*DocuSign Envelope ID*",
62 "*Certificate Of Completion*",
63 "*Adobe Sign*"
64 )
65 or (
66 .depth == 0
67 and (
68 (
69 .scan.exiftool.page_count > 10
70 and length(.scan.strings.strings) > 8000
71 )
72 or (
73 .scan.exiftool.producer == "Acrobat Sign"
74 and any(.scan.exiftool.fields,
75 .key == "SigningReason"
76 and .value == "Certified by Adobe Acrobat Sign"
77 )
78 )
79 )
80 )
81 )
82 )
83
84 // accomidate truncated pngs and GIF files which can cause logodetect/OCR failures
85 or (
86 any(attachments,
87 (
88 .file_type =~ "gif"
89 or any(file.explode(.),
90 any(.scan.exiftool.fields,
91 .key == "Warning" and .value == "Truncated PNG image"
92 )
93 )
94 )
95 )
96 and (
97 any(ml.logo_detect(beta.message_screenshot()).brands,
98 (
99 .name == "DocuSign"
100 or any(file.explode(beta.message_screenshot()),
101 strings.ilike(.scan.ocr.raw, "*DocuSign*")
102 )
103 )
104 )
105 and (
106 any(file.explode(beta.message_screenshot()),
107 (
108 any(ml.nlu_classifier(.scan.ocr.raw).intents,
109 .name == "cred_theft" and .confidence != "low"
110 )
111 or regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw,
112 "((re)?view|access|complete(d)?) document(s)?",
113 "[^d][^o][^c][^u]sign",
114 "important edocs",
115 // German (Document (check|check|sign|sent))
116 "Dokument (überprüfen|prüfen|unterschreiben|geschickt)",
117 // German (important|urgent|immediate)
118 "(wichtig|dringend|sofort)"
119 )
120 )
121 )
122 )
123 and not any(file.explode(beta.message_screenshot()),
124 strings.ilike(.scan.ocr.raw,
125 "*DocuSigned By*",
126 "*DocuSign Envelope ID*",
127 "*Certificate Of Completion*",
128 "*Adobe Sign*"
129 )
130 )
131 )
132 )
133 )
134 and (
135 not profile.by_sender_email().solicited
136 or profile.by_sender_email().prevalence == "new"
137 or (
138 profile.by_sender_email().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
139 and not profile.by_sender_email().any_messages_benign
140 )
141 )
142 and not profile.by_sender_email().any_messages_benign
143
144 // negate docusign 'via' messages
145 and not (
146 any(headers.hops,
147 any(.fields,
148 .name == "X-Api-Host" and strings.ends_with(.value, "docusign.net")
149 )
150 )
151 and strings.contains(sender.display_name, "via")
152 )
153
154 // negate docusign originated emails
155 and not any(headers.hops,
156 regex.imatch(.received.server.raw, ".+.docusign.(net|com)")
157 )
158attack_types:
159 - "Credential Phishing"
160tactics_and_techniques:
161 - "Impersonation: Brand"
162 - "Social engineering"
163detection_methods:
164 - "Computer Vision"
165 - "Content analysis"
166 - "Header analysis"
167 - "Natural Language Understanding"
168 - "Optical Character Recognition"
169 - "Sender analysis"
170 - "URL screenshot"
171id: "814a5694-d626-5bf4-a1ba-a1dbcb625279"