Twitter infrastructure abuse via link shortener
Email contains Twitter shortened link (t.co) but does not originate from a Twitter domain. This is a known malicious and spam tactic.
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1name: "Twitter infrastructure abuse via link shortener"
2description: "Email contains Twitter shortened link (t.co) but does not originate from a Twitter domain. This is a known malicious and spam tactic."
3type: "rule"
4severity: "medium"
5source: |
6 type.inbound
7 and length(body.links) < 10
8 and any(body.links, .href_url.domain.root_domain == "t.co")
9 and sender.email.domain.domain not in~ (
10 'twitter.com',
11 'x.com',
12 'twitter.discoursemail.com'
13 )
14 and (
15 not profile.by_sender_email().solicited
16 or (
17 profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
18 and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign
19 )
20 )
21 // negate highly trusted sender domains unless they fail DMARC authentication
22 and not (
23 sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
24 and coalesce(headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass, false)
25 )
26
27tags:
28 - "Attack surface reduction"
29attack_types:
30 - "Credential Phishing"
31 - "Malware/Ransomware"
32 - "Spam"
33tactics_and_techniques:
34 - "Evasion"
35 - "Impersonation: Brand"
36 - "Social engineering"
37detection_methods:
38 - "Content analysis"
39 - "Sender analysis"
40 - "URL analysis"
41id: "99ca165e-086a-5dc0-aa75-82446f27955b"