EMAIL BETA - Suspicious theme and sentiment in email

Cortex XDR Analytics Alert Reference by Alert name

Product
Cortex XDR
Last date published
2025-04-21
Category
Analytics Alert Reference
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Alert name

Synopsis

Activation Period

14 Days

Training Period

30 Days

Test Period

1 Hour

Deduplication Period

1 Day

Required Data

  • Requires:

Detection Modules

Email

Detector Tags

ATT&CK Tactic

Impact (TA0040)

ATT&CK Technique

Financial Theft (T1657)

Severity

Informational

Description

The email's body has a theme and sentiment that may indicate a malicious attempt.

Attacker's Goals

Trick recipients into revealing sensitive information, hijack the organization, or obtain money through deception.

Investigative actions

  • Review the email headers and metadata of to identify potential spoofing techniques or unusual routing patterns.
  • Analyze any URLs or attachments in a secure sandbox environment to detect possible malware or phishing attempts.
  • Correlate findings with recent alerts in the SIEM to assess whether similar accumulation patterns are forming.
  • Engage potentially affected users to understand if any actions were taken in response to this email, which could increase the overall risk.
  • Document and escalate findings if the accumulation of warnings suggests a broader phishing campaign.

Variations

EMAIL BETA - Suspicious theme and sentiment in email

Synopsis

ATT&CK Tactic

Impact (TA0040)

ATT&CK Technique

Financial Theft (T1657)

Severity

Low

Description

The email's body has a theme and sentiment that may indicate a malicious attempt, and contains urls or attachments.

Attacker's Goals

Trick recipients into revealing sensitive information, hijack the organization, or obtain money through deception.

Investigative actions

  • Review the email headers and metadata of to identify potential spoofing techniques or unusual routing patterns.
  • Analyze any URLs or attachments in a secure sandbox environment to detect possible malware or phishing attempts.
  • Correlate findings with recent alerts in the SIEM to assess whether similar accumulation patterns are forming.
  • Engage potentially affected users to understand if any actions were taken in response to this email, which could increase the overall risk.
  • Document and escalate findings if the accumulation of warnings suggests a broader phishing campaign.