Sublime Security medium experimental mql
Callback phishing: Social Security Administration fraud
Detects phishing attempts that impersonate the Social Security Administration, using a single PDF attachment containing specific fraud-related language and a callback number.
Detection Logic
type.inbound
and (
not profile.by_sender().solicited
or (
profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign
)
)
// single attachment
and length(attachments) == 1
// sender is freemail
and sender.email.domain.root_domain in $free_email_providers
// the attachment is a pdf with 1 page, and at least 60 ocr chars
and any(attachments,
.file_extension == "pdf"
and any(file.explode(.), .scan.exiftool.page_count == 1)
and any(file.explode(.), length(.scan.ocr.raw) > 60)
// 4 of the following strings are found
and (
any(file.explode(.),
4 of (
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "fraudulent activity"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "Social Security Number"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "SSN"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "stolen"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "illicit activities"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw,
"Social Security Administration"
),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "if you are innocent"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "help line"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "Department of Justice"),
strings.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, "innocent"),
regex.icontains(.scan.ocr.raw, '\$\d{3}\.\d{2}\b')
and (
regex.contains(.scan.ocr.raw,
'(\+\d
| 1.(\()?\d{3}(\))?\D\d{3}\D\d{4})'
)
or regex.contains(.scan.ocr.raw,
'\+?(\d{1,2})?\s?\(?\d{3}\)?[\s\.\-⋅]{0,5}\d{3}[\s\.\-⋅]{0,5}\d{4}'
)
)
)
)
)
) Field Validations
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