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 any(body.links,
11 .href_url.domain.domain in $free_file_hosts
12 and not (
13 // negating Google Forms links
14 .href_url.domain.domain == "docs.google.com"
15 and strings.istarts_with(.href_url.path, "/forms/")
16 )
17 )
18 and regex.icontains(subject.subject, 'immediately', 'urgent')
19 and any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).intents, .name != "benign")
20 and (
21 (
22 sender.email.domain.root_domain in $free_email_providers
23 and sender.email.email not in $recipient_emails
24 )
25 or (
26 sender.email.domain.root_domain not in $free_email_providers
27 and sender.email.domain.domain not in $recipient_domains
28 )
29 )
30attack_types:
31 - "BEC/Fraud"
32tactics_and_techniques:
33 - "Free file host"
34 - "Social engineering"
35detection_methods:
36 - "Header analysis"
37 - "Sender analysis"
38 - "URL analysis"
39id: "a306e2a6-addc-5e26-9be1-c146f37fd7f2"