Brand impersonation: FedEx
Impersonation of the shipping provider FedEx.
Sublime rule (View on GitHub)
1name: "Brand impersonation: FedEx"
2description: |
3 Impersonation of the shipping provider FedEx.
4references:
5 - "https://www.fedex.com/en-us/trust-center/report-fraud/fraudulent-email-examples.html"
6type: "rule"
7severity: "low"
8source: |
9 type.inbound
10 and (
11 sender.display_name in~ ('fedex', 'fedex shipment', 'fedex tracking updates')
12 or strings.ilevenshtein(sender.display_name, 'fedex') <= 1
13 or regex.icontains(sender.display_name, '^Fed-?ex')
14 or strings.ilike(sender.email.domain.domain, '*fedex*')
15 )
16 // sedex.com is not affiliated with FedEx, but is an apparent FP
17 and sender.email.domain.root_domain not in~ ('fedex.com', 'sedex.com', 'myworkday.com', 'billtrust.com')
18 and (
19 not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
20 and not profile.by_sender().solicited
21 )
22
23 // negate highly trusted sender domains unless they fail DMARC authentication
24 and (
25 (
26 sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
27 and not headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
28 )
29 or sender.email.domain.root_domain not in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
30 )
31attack_types:
32 - "Credential Phishing"
33tactics_and_techniques:
34 - "Impersonation: Brand"
35 - "Lookalike domain"
36 - "Social engineering"
37detection_methods:
38 - "Header analysis"
39 - "Sender analysis"
40id: "94a2b602-2bc1-5ea3-941e-752e3a2235cf"