Attachment: HTML smuggling with decimal encoding

Potential HTML smuggling attack based on large blocks of decimal encoding. Attackers often use decimal encoding as an obfuscation technique to bypass traditional email security measures.

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 1name: "Attachment: HTML smuggling with decimal encoding"
 2description: |
 3    Potential HTML smuggling attack based on large blocks of decimal encoding. Attackers often use decimal encoding as an obfuscation technique to bypass traditional email security measures. 
 4type: "rule"
 5severity: "high"
 6source: |
 7  type.inbound
 8  and any(attachments,
 9          (
10            .file_extension in~ ("html", "htm", "shtml", "dhtml", "xhtml")
11            or (
12              .file_extension is null
13              and .file_type == "unknown"
14              and .content_type == "application/octet-stream"
15            )
16            or .file_extension in~ $file_extensions_common_archives
17            or .file_type == "html"
18            or .content_type == "text/html"
19          )
20          and any(file.explode(.),
21                  // suspicious identifiers
22                  any(.scan.strings.strings, regex.contains(., '(\d{2,3},){60,}'))
23          )
24  )
25  // negate highly trusted sender domains unless they fail DMARC authentication
26  and not (
27    sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
28    and coalesce(headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass, false)
29  )
30  and (
31    not profile.by_sender().solicited
32    or (
33      profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
34      and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign
35    )
36  )
37  and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign  
38attack_types:
39  - "Credential Phishing"
40  - "Malware/Ransomware"
41tactics_and_techniques:
42  - "Evasion"
43  - "HTML smuggling"
44  - "Scripting"
45detection_methods:
46  - "Archive analysis"
47  - "Content analysis"
48  - "File analysis"
49  - "HTML analysis"
50id: "f99213c4-7031-50b1-ae81-b45f790d3fa4"
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