Google Notification alert link from non-Google sender
This rule detects messages that leverage a link to notifications.google.com not from google and from an untrusted sender. Commonly abused in salesforce phishing campaigns.
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1name: "Google Notification alert link from non-Google sender"
2description: "This rule detects messages that leverage a link to notifications.google.com not from google and from an untrusted sender. Commonly abused in salesforce phishing campaigns. "
3type: "rule"
4references:
5 - "https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/15oilcr/meta_business_suite_messenger_phishing_scam_can/"
6severity: "medium"
7source: |
8 type.inbound
9 // ignore messages from google[.]com unlesss they fail DMARC authentication
10 and (
11 (
12 sender.email.domain.root_domain in ("google.com", "youtube.com", "nest.com")
13 and not headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass
14 )
15 or sender.email.domain.root_domain not in ("google.com", "youtube.com", "nest.com")
16 )
17 and any(body.links,
18 .href_url.domain.domain == "notifications.google.com"
19 and strings.starts_with(.href_url.path, "/g/p/")
20 )
21 and any($suspicious_subjects, strings.icontains(subject.subject, .))
22 and (
23 (
24 profile.by_sender().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
25 and not profile.by_sender().solicited
26 )
27 or (
28 profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
29 and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
30 )
31 // we've observed salesforce abuse
32 or sender.email.domain.root_domain == "salesforce.com"
33 or headers.return_path.domain.root_domain == "salesforce.com"
34 )
35 and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
36attack_types:
37 - "Credential Phishing"
38tactics_and_techniques:
39 - "Social engineering"
40detection_methods:
41 - "Content analysis"
42 - "Header analysis"
43 - "Sender analysis"
44 - "URL analysis"
45id: "a1c1acfd-9b3b-58a7-81f1-b2c631b02985"