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Labs / Email and phishing

The CEO’s reply address is a freemail account

Read a user’s mailbox file with grep. Compare From, Reply-To, and Return-Path on each message and find the one where replies would go somewhere other than the sender.

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Briefing

tom.reed forwarded a message to the security mailbox: the CEO asked him for gift cards. His mailbox was exported in mbox format, one message after another, each starting with a “From ” line.

From is what the mail client shows. Reply-To is where a reply goes. Return-Path is the envelope sender that bounces go to and that SPF checks.

analyst@mail-triage

mail-triage · Email and phishing

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