Brand impersonation: Toronto-Dominion Bank

Impersonation of TD Bank or TD Canada Trust using display name spoofing or logo detection, combined with suspicious content related to security authentication or credential theft from unauthorized senders.

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  1name: "Brand impersonation: Toronto-Dominion Bank"
  2description: "Impersonation of TD Bank or TD Canada Trust using display name spoofing or logo detection, combined with suspicious content related to security authentication or credential theft from unauthorized senders."
  3type: "rule"
  4severity: "medium"
  5source: |
  6  type.inbound
  7  and (
  8    // display name contains TD Bank
  9    (
 10      strings.ilike(strings.replace_confusables(sender.display_name), '*TD Bank*')
 11      or strings.ilike(strings.replace_confusables(sender.display_name),
 12                       '*TD Canada Trust*'
 13      )
 14      // levenshtein distance similar to TD bank
 15      or strings.ilevenshtein(strings.replace_confusables(sender.display_name),
 16                              'TD Bank'
 17      ) <= 1
 18      or strings.ilevenshtein(strings.replace_confusables(sender.display_name),
 19                              'TD Canada Trust'
 20      ) <= 1
 21      or any(ml.logo_detect(file.message_screenshot()).brands,
 22             .name == "TD Bank" and .confidence == "high"
 23      )
 24      // TD Secure Email
 25      or any([subject.base, sender.display_name], strings.ilike(., "*TD?Secure*"))
 26    )
 27  )
 28  and (
 29    (
 30      any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).topics,
 31          .name in (
 32            "Security and Authentication",
 33            "Secure Message",
 34            "Reminders and Notifications"
 35          )
 36          and .confidence in ("medium", "high")
 37      )
 38      and not any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).topics,
 39                  .name in ("Newsletters and Digests", "Entertainment and Sports")
 40                  and .confidence in ("medium", "high")
 41      )
 42    )
 43    or (
 44      beta.ocr(file.message_screenshot()).text != ""
 45      and any(ml.nlu_classifier(beta.ocr(file.message_screenshot()).text).topics,
 46              .name in (
 47                "Security and Authentication",
 48                "Secure Message",
 49                "Reminders and Notifications"
 50              )
 51              and .confidence in ("medium", "high")
 52      )
 53      and not any(ml.nlu_classifier(beta.ocr(file.message_screenshot()).text).topics,
 54                  .name in ("Newsletters and Digests", "Entertainment and Sports")
 55                  and .confidence in ("medium", "high")
 56      )
 57    )
 58    or any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).intents,
 59           .name == "cred_theft" and .confidence == "high"
 60    )
 61    or any(ml.nlu_classifier(beta.ocr(file.message_screenshot()).text).intents,
 62           .name == "cred_theft" and .confidence == "high"
 63    )
 64  )
 65  
 66  // and the sender is not in org_domains or from TD domains and passes auth
 67  and not (
 68    sender.email.domain.root_domain in $org_domains
 69    or (
 70      sender.email.domain.root_domain in (
 71        "td.com",
 72        "tdbank.com",
 73        "tdcanadatrust.com",
 74        "tdameritrade.com",
 75        "tdwaterhouse.ca",
 76        "tdwaterhouse.com",
 77        "tdassetmanagement.com",
 78        "tdinsurance.com",
 79        "tdautofinance.com",
 80        "tdautofinance.ca",
 81        "email-td.com",
 82        "feedback-td.com",
 83        "interac.ca"
 84      )
 85      and headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
 86    )
 87  )
 88  // and the sender is not from high trust sender root domains
 89  and not (
 90    sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
 91    and coalesce(headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass, false)
 92  )
 93  and (
 94    not profile.by_sender().solicited
 95    or not headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
 96    or not headers.auth_summary.spf.pass
 97  )  
 98
 99attack_types:
100  - "Credential Phishing"
101tactics_and_techniques:
102  - "Impersonation: Brand"
103  - "Social engineering"
104detection_methods:
105  - "Computer Vision"
106  - "Content analysis"
107  - "Header analysis"
108  - "Natural Language Understanding"
109  - "Optical Character Recognition"
110  - "Sender analysis"
111id: "2dc16a55-32c0-5731-85bd-08131aa535ab"
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