Link: Gmail confidential mode message from new or unsolicited sender
Detects Gmail confidential mode messages from first-time, unsolicited, or previously malicious senders. Message contents are only viewable after authentication and cannot be scanned.
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1name: "Link: Gmail confidential mode message from new or unsolicited sender"
2description: "Detects Gmail confidential mode messages from first-time, unsolicited, or previously malicious senders. Message contents are only viewable after authentication and cannot be scanned."
3type: "rule"
4severity: "low"
5false_positives:
6 - "Legitimate first-time senders using Gmail confidential mode, sender exclusions should be used to avoid continued/repeat matching of benign messages"
7source: |
8 type.inbound
9 and any(body.links,
10 .href_url.domain.domain == "confidential-mail.google.com"
11 and strings.istarts_with(.href_url.path, "/msg/")
12 )
13 and (
14 (
15 profile.by_sender_email().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
16 and not profile.by_sender_email().solicited
17 )
18 or (
19 profile.by_sender_email().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
20 and not profile.by_sender_email().any_messages_benign
21 )
22 )
23tags:
24 - "Attack surface reduction"
25attack_types:
26 - "Credential Phishing"
27tactics_and_techniques:
28 - "Evasion"
29 - "Social engineering"
30detection_methods:
31 - "Sender analysis"
32 - "URL analysis"
33id: "1ef2d01c-c5dd-5c77-bfe0-fac0b1b0edc8"