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Inoming content filter on Envelope Sender not matching

We have an increasing amount of Phisingmail goint into our organization. 

For the users, its looks like the mail is coming from people high up in the organization but the reply to or x-sender fields are from the "phishers". 

The mail is sent from the outside, but has an internal mail adress to for example some Exec.  

This is how the mail can look (adresses changed)

From: Some Exec <real mail adress in our organization@ourdomain.com>
X-Sender: Fake adress@phising.com
Reply-To: Some Exec <other fake adress@phising.net>
To: <real recipient@ourdomain.com>
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Hall=C3=A5?=
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 06:54:09 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Return-Path: other fake adress@phising.net

We have set up an incoming content filter that matchets on the Envelope Sender, since we figure that these adress never should send mail into the organization, but out to. However, this mails gets through the contentfilter for some reason. 

How can we stop them? Is there some way of looking of the X-sender and the from does not match for example?

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Mathew Huynh
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hey Andreas,

It is likely (my assumption from the info given) the emails are coming in with a complete spammy fakeaddress@phishing.com from the envelope sender level but the Header From is showing your internal organization as a spoof.

If so i would suggest to review this article for assistance on anti-spoofing.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/email-security-appliance/117796-problemsolution-esa-00.html

Regards,

Matthew

Hi!

Thanks for the reply! That was what i was looking for!

I have used the matching of mail-from, but i have not used the other header and added From. I have added this to the filter and will check if the result is better!

/Andreas

Hey Andreas,

Happy to help.

Please keep me updated if my answer was correct for you.

Thanks,

Matthew