Service abuse: Square marketing with suspicious QR code
Detects messages from Square's marketing domain containing QR codes that redirect to self-service creation platforms, file sharing services, or image hosting services.
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1name: "Service abuse: Square marketing with suspicious QR code"
2description: "Detects messages from Square's marketing domain containing QR codes that redirect to self-service creation platforms, file sharing services, or image hosting services."
3type: "rule"
4severity: "high"
5source: |
6 type.inbound
7 and sender.email.domain.domain == "squaremktg.com"
8 and beta.scan_qr(file.message_screenshot()).found
9 //
10 // This rule makes use of a beta feature and is subject to change without notice
11 // using the beta feature in custom rules is not suggested until it has been formally released
12 //
13 and any(filter(beta.scan_qr(file.message_screenshot()).items,
14 // ignore square's own free website hosting service
15 .url.domain.root_domain != "square.site"
16 ),
17 (
18 .url.domain.root_domain in $self_service_creation_platform_domains
19 or .url.domain.domain in $self_service_creation_platform_domains
20 )
21 or (
22 .url.domain.root_domain in $free_file_hosts
23 or .url.domain.domain in $free_file_hosts
24 )
25 )
26
27attack_types:
28 - "Credential Phishing"
29tactics_and_techniques:
30 - "QR code"
31 - "Free file host"
32detection_methods:
33 - "Computer Vision"
34 - "QR code analysis"
35 - "Sender analysis"
36 - "URL analysis"
37id: "079c81ff-45f6-5460-8dc5-f00dcfcdd57a"