Service abuse: Facebook business with action required subject
Detects messages from the Facebook business domain containing 'action required' in the subject line, commonly used to create urgency in impersonation attacks.
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1name: "Service abuse: Facebook business with action required subject"
2description: "Detects messages from the Facebook business domain containing 'action required' in the subject line, commonly used to create urgency in impersonation attacks."
3type: "rule"
4severity: "medium"
5source: |
6 type.inbound
7 and (
8 sender.email.domain.root_domain == "facebook.com"
9 or sender.email.domain.root_domain == "facebookmail.com"
10 )
11 and 3 of (
12 strings.icontains(subject.subject, "Action required"),
13 strings.icontains(subject.subject, "invited to join"),
14 strings.icontains(body.current_thread.text, "You've been invited"),
15 strings.icontains(body.current_thread.text, "You're invited"),
16 strings.icontains(body.current_thread.text,
17 "not part of or affiliated with Meta"
18 )
19 )
20 and (
21 // and the link is recently registered
22 any(body.links, network.whois(.href_url.domain).days_old <= 30)
23 or any(body.links,
24 // if the link is still active, check if it's cred theft
25 any(ml.nlu_classifier(beta.ocr(ml.link_analysis(.).screenshot).text).intents,
26 .name == "cred_theft" and .confidence != "low"
27 )
28 )
29 // or look for the legit Meta footer address
30 or strings.icontains(body.current_thread.text,
31 '1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025'
32 )
33 )
34tags:
35 - "Attack surface reduction"
36attack_types:
37 - "Credential Phishing"
38tactics_and_techniques:
39 - "Impersonation: Brand"
40 - "Social engineering"
41detection_methods:
42 - "Content analysis"
43 - "Sender analysis"
44id: "64297d2f-a5bd-5336-8db7-ec00df59411f"