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 (
22 any($suspicious_subjects, strings.icontains(subject.subject, .))
23 or strings.ilike(subject.subject, '*verification*')
24 )
25 and (
26 (
27 profile.by_sender().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
28 and not profile.by_sender().solicited
29 )
30 or (
31 profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
32 and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
33 )
34 // we've observed salesforce abuse
35 or sender.email.domain.root_domain == "salesforce.com"
36 or headers.return_path.domain.root_domain == "salesforce.com"
37 )
38 and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
39attack_types:
40 - "Credential Phishing"
41tactics_and_techniques:
42 - "Social engineering"
43detection_methods:
44 - "Content analysis"
45 - "Header analysis"
46 - "Sender analysis"
47 - "URL analysis"
48id: "a1c1acfd-9b3b-58a7-81f1-b2c631b02985"