File sharing link with a suspicious subject
A file sharing link in the body with a common BEC subject. This rule could be expanded to include additional BEC subjects.
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1name: "File sharing link with a suspicious subject"
2description: |
3 A file sharing link in the body with a common BEC subject. This rule could be expanded to
4 include additional BEC subjects.
5type: "rule"
6severity: "medium"
7source: |
8 type.inbound
9 and sender.email.domain.root_domain != 'google.com'
10 and not (
11 sender.email.domain.root_domain == "dropbox.com"
12 and headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
13 )
14 and any(body.links,
15 (
16 .href_url.domain.domain in $free_file_hosts
17 or .href_url.domain.root_domain in $free_file_hosts
18 )
19 and not (
20 // negating Google Forms links
21 .href_url.domain.domain == "docs.google.com"
22 and strings.istarts_with(.href_url.path, "/forms/")
23 )
24 )
25 and regex.icontains(subject.subject, 'immediately', 'urgent')
26 and any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).intents, .name != "benign")
27 and (
28 not profile.by_sender().solicited
29 or (
30 profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
31 and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
32 )
33 )
34
35
36attack_types:
37 - "BEC/Fraud"
38tactics_and_techniques:
39 - "Free file host"
40 - "Social engineering"
41detection_methods:
42 - "Header analysis"
43 - "Sender analysis"
44 - "URL analysis"
45id: "a306e2a6-addc-5e26-9be1-c146f37fd7f2"