Spam: URL shortener with short body content and emojis
Detects spam from freemail senders, where the majority of the body is a URL shortener and emojis.
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1name: "Spam: URL shortener with short body content and emojis"
2description: |
3 Detects spam from freemail senders, where the majority of the body is a URL shortener and emojis.
4type: "rule"
5severity: "low"
6source: |
7 type.inbound
8
9 // sender is a freemail
10 and sender.email.domain.root_domain in $free_email_providers
11
12 // has a URL shortener
13 and any(body.links, .href_url.domain.root_domain in $url_shorteners)
14
15 // short body, basically just the URL
16 and length(body.plain.raw) < 100
17
18 // has an emoji in the subject or body
19 and (
20 regex.contains(body.plain.raw,
21 '[\x{1F300}-\x{1F5FF}\x{1F600}-\x{1F64F}\x{1F680}-\x{1F6FF}\x{1F700}-\x{1F77F}\x{1F780}-\x{1F7FF}\x{1F900}-\x{1F9FF}\x{2600}-\x{26FF}\x{2700}-\x{27BF}\x{2300}-\x{23FF}]'
22 )
23 or regex.contains(subject.subject,
24 '[\x{1F300}-\x{1F5FF}\x{1F600}-\x{1F64F}\x{1F680}-\x{1F6FF}\x{1F700}-\x{1F77F}\x{1F780}-\x{1F7FF}\x{1F900}-\x{1F9FF}\x{2600}-\x{26FF}\x{2700}-\x{27BF}\x{2300}-\x{23FF}]'
25 )
26 )
27 and (
28 profile.by_sender().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
29 or (
30 profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
31 and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
32 )
33 )
34attack_types:
35 - "Spam"
36tactics_and_techniques:
37 - "Free email provider"
38detection_methods:
39 - "Content analysis"
40 - "Sender analysis"
41 - "URL analysis"
42id: "b7797e4c-f2d7-5330-8a16-7123fe9bb6a8"