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Spam: Cold outreach from Cloudflare-hosted newly registered domain

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Summary
This rule flags inbound email threads that appear to be outreach spam leveraging newly created sender domains hosted via Cloudflare. It targets domains registered very recently and constrained to use Cloudflare’s DNS infrastructure, specifically two name servers with subdomains ending in .ns. The rule then applies Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to classify the message as B2B cold outreach, requires that the email body be concise (under 350 characters), and filters out domains whose top-level domain (TLD) appears on a suspicious-TLD list. A few inconsistencies exist in the description: the human-readable summary says domains registered within 70 days, while the code uses a 90-day threshold. The detection relies on Whois to inspect domain age and name servers, NLU/content analysis to identify B2B cold outreach, and a length check on the body text. If all conditions are met, the alert is raised as a low-severity Spam event, suggesting abuse of Cloudflare’s free DNS infrastructure for rapid, outreach-style campaigns.
Categories
  • Network
  • Endpoint
Data Sources
  • Domain Name
Created: 2026-08-05