Service abuse: Nylas tracking subdomain with suspicious content

Detects messages containing links to Nylas tracking subdomains with display text and suspicious language patterns, indicating potential abuse of the email tracking service.

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 1name: "Service abuse: Nylas tracking subdomain with suspicious content"
 2description: "Detects messages containing links to Nylas tracking subdomains with display text and suspicious language patterns, indicating potential abuse of the email tracking service."
 3type: "rule"
 4severity: "medium"
 5source: |
 6  type.inbound
 7  and any(filter(body.current_thread.links, .href_url.domain.sld == "nylas"),
 8          .display_text is not null
 9          and strings.icontains(.href_url.domain.subdomain, 'tracking')
10  )
11  and any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).intents,
12          .name == "cred_theft" and .confidence != "low"
13  )  
14tags:
15  - "Attack surface reduction"
16attack_types:
17  - "BEC/Fraud"
18  - "Credential Phishing"
19tactics_and_techniques:
20  - "Evasion"
21  - "Social engineering"
22detection_methods:
23  - "Content analysis"
24  - "Natural Language Understanding"
25  - "URL analysis"
26id: "a3a6c896-1d1e-5a7c-ad72-6adda57a329f"

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