
Summary
This rule detects inbound emails that contain links to storage.googleapis.com where the URL path matches a pattern of a single-character folder followed by a two-letter HTML filename (for example, /x/ab.html). Phishing campaigns often use this naming convention on legitimate cloud storage services to mask the actual destination and evade simple URL checks. The condition inspects email content (body.links) and requires the link to point to storage.googleapis.com with a path that matches the regex '/[^/]+/[a-z]{1,2}\.html'. When triggered, it indicates credential phishing activity leveraging cloud storage as a hosting mechanism to host deceptive HTML pages. The detection relies on URL analysis of inbound content to surface suspicious hosting patterns that may lead victims to phishing sites or credential harvest pages.
Categories
- Cloud
- Web
Data Sources
- Web Credential
- Network Traffic
Created: 2026-09-24