Attachment: Cold outreach with invitation subject and not attachment
Detects inbound messages with invitation-related subjects that request recipients to view attachments, contain no links, and are classified as B2B cold outreach with high confidence. Messages either have no attachments or contain a single image attachment.
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1name: "Attachment: Cold outreach with invitation subject and not attachment"
2description: "Detects inbound messages with invitation-related subjects that request recipients to view attachments, contain no links, and are classified as B2B cold outreach with high confidence. Messages either have no attachments or contain a single image attachment."
3type: "rule"
4severity: "high"
5source: |
6 type.inbound
7 and strings.icontains(subject.subject, 'invit')
8 and length(body.links) == 0
9 // please find attached language
10 and regex.icontains(body.current_thread.text,
11 '(?:please|find|view).{0,50}attached'
12 )
13 // a single image attachment or there are 0 attachments
14 and (
15 (
16 length(attachments) == 1
17 and all(attachments, .file_type in $file_types_images)
18 )
19 or length(attachments) == 0
20 )
21 and any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).topics,
22 .name == "B2B Cold Outreach" and .confidence == "high"
23 )
24attack_types:
25 - "Spam"
26tactics_and_techniques:
27 - "Social engineering"
28 - "Image as content"
29detection_methods:
30 - "Content analysis"
31 - "Natural Language Understanding"
32 - "File analysis"
33id: "883d04a9-a43d-5c9a-bb4b-b8b158e593fb"