Attachment: Fake Voicemail via PDF
Identifies inbound messages containing a single-page PDF attachment related to voicemail or missed call notifications that includes either a URL or QR code.
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1name: "Attachment: Fake Voicemail via PDF"
2description: "Identifies inbound messages containing a single-page PDF attachment related to voicemail or missed call notifications that includes either a URL or QR code."
3type: "rule"
4severity: "medium"
5source: |
6 type.inbound
7 // a single PDF attachment
8 and length(attachments) == 1
9 // the subject doesn't contain fax, which is currently a common match for the topic
10 and not strings.icontains(subject.subject, 'fax')
11 and ml.nlu_classifier(subject.subject).language == "english"
12 and any(beta.ml_topic(body.current_thread.text).topics,
13 .confidence == "high"
14 and .name == "Voicemail Call and Missed Call Notifications"
15 )
16 // the Topic analysis of the PDF is Voicemail
17 and any(attachments,
18 .file_extension == "pdf"
19 // the NLU detected language is english
20 and ml.nlu_classifier(beta.ocr(.).text).language == "english"
21 and length(beta.ocr(.).text) > 100
22 and any(beta.ml_topic(beta.ocr(.).text).topics,
23 .confidence == "high"
24 and .name == "Voicemail Call and Missed Call Notifications"
25 )
26 and beta.ocr(.).success
27 // contains a link or QR code
28 and any(file.explode(.),
29 0 < length(.scan.pdf.urls) <= 2 or .scan.qr.url.url is not null
30 )
31 // there is only a single page
32 and any(file.explode(.), .depth == 0 and .scan.exiftool.page_count == 1)
33 )
34attack_types:
35 - "Credential Phishing"
36tactics_and_techniques:
37 - "PDF"
38 - "QR code"
39 - "Social engineering"
40detection_methods:
41 - "Computer Vision"
42 - "Content analysis"
43 - "File analysis"
44 - "Optical Character Recognition"
45 - "QR code analysis"
46 - "URL analysis"
47id: "d3587209-a8e6-5209-8dfc-35646b6ccd23"