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Attachment: Legal themed message or PDF with suspicious indicators

Detects messages with short body content or emoji containing PDF attachments from suspicious creators that include legal and compliance language with embedded malicious links, URL shorteners, or newly registered domains.

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Detection Logic

type.inbound
// short body or contains emoji
and (
  length(body.current_thread.text) < 1500
  or regex.contains(body.plain.raw,
                    '[\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}]'
  )
  or regex.contains(subject.base,
                    '[\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}]'
  )
)

// is not a reply
and length(headers.references) == 0
and headers.in_reply_to is null
and (
  ( // only one attachment
    length(attachments) == 1
    // or, any 2 attachments share the ~same file name
    or any(attachments,
           any(regex.extract(.file_name,
                             // the regex extracts the file name, discarding the file extention and any numbers in parens
                             // "test.txt" and "test (1).pdf" become "test"
                             '(?P<file_name>.*?)(?:\s*\([^)]+\))*\.[^.]+$'
               ),
               length(filter(attachments,
                             strings.istarts_with(.file_name,
                                                  ..named_groups["file_name"]
                             )
                      )
               ) > 1
           )
    )
  )
  // suspicious creator
  and any(attachments,
          (.file_extension == "pdf" or .file_type == "pdf")
          and any(file.explode(.),
                  strings.ilike(.scan.exiftool.producer,
                                "*Google Docs Renderer*",
                                "*Skia/PDF*",
                                "*Neevia Document Converter*"
                  )
                  or strings.istarts_with(.scan.exiftool.creator, "wkhtmltopdf")
          )
  )
)
and (
  // legal language in body with suspicious link in attachment
  (
    any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).topics,
        .name == "Legal and Compliance" and .confidence in ("medium", "high")
    )
    and any(attachments,
            (.file_extension == "pdf" or .file_type == "pdf")
            and any(file.explode(.),
                    0 < length(.scan.pdf.urls) < 5
                    and (
                      any(.scan.pdf.urls,
                          // with links that are URL shortners
                          .domain.root_domain in $url_shorteners
                          or .domain.domain in $url_shorteners
                          or network.whois(.domain).days_old < 14
                          // when visiting those links, the link it is sus
                          or ml.link_analysis(.).effective_url.domain.tld in $suspicious_tlds
                          or ml.link_analysis(.).credphish.contains_captcha
                          or ml.link_analysis(.).credphish.disposition == "phishing"
                          or strings.icontains(ml.link_analysis(.).final_dom.display_text,
                                               "I'm Human"
                          )
                      )
                    )
            )
    )
  )
  // no body text, legal language in attachment
  or (
    length(body.current_thread.text) < 50
    and any(attachments,
            (.file_extension == "pdf" or .file_type == "pdf")
            and any(file.explode(.),
                    (
                      length(ml.nlu_classifier(.scan.ocr.raw).topics) == 1
                      and any(ml.nlu_classifier(.scan.ocr.raw).topics,
                              .name == "Legal and Compliance"
                              and .confidence in ("medium", "high")
                      )
                      and not any(ml.nlu_classifier(.scan.ocr.raw).entities,
                                  .name == "sender"
                                  and .text =~ sender.display_name
                      )
                    )
                    // foreign language indicators
                    or regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw,
                                       'pornograph(y
| ie)',
                                       'interpol\b',
                                       'europol',
                                       'dissuade',
                                       // French indicators, seen in threatening language
                                       'ce jeu en ligne',
                                       'vraie vie'
                    )
            )
    )
  )
)

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