SOC Operations & Automated Incident Response
Problem Statement
Phishing reports submitted by employees flood security operation queues. Manually inspecting raw email headers, extracting URLs, checking domain registration ages, querying sandbox analysis APIs, and deleting malicious emails across all tenant mailboxes takes significant time per incident.
Goal
Develop an agentic pipeline that ingests reported .eml payload metadata, safely parses headers/URLs, analyzes malice, and formats orchestration payloads for email deletion.
Outcome Measurement
- Phishing Response Time: Time from user report to enterprise inbox removal reduced from 45 minutes to < 30 seconds.
- Accuracy: Zero false-positive removals on legitimate internal corporate communications.
How the Code was Built
The script uses python standard libraries (urllib, re) for deterministic extraction combined with LLM semantic verification of email urgency/phishing language patterns.
Executable Code
import refrom typing import Listfrom pydantic import BaseModel, Fieldfrom langchain_openai import ChatOpenAIclass PhishingAnalysis(BaseModel): is_phishing: bool = Field(description="True if email is malicious phishing attempt") confidence: float = Field(description="Confidence score 0.0 to 1.0") suspicious_indicators: List[str] = Field(description="List of detected anomalies") action_item: str = Field(description="Action to take, e.g., PURGE_MAILBOX, WHITE_LIST, NO_ACTION")def analyze_phishing_email(headers: str, body: str) -> PhishingAnalysis: llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o", temperature=0) structured_llm = llm.with_structured_output(PhishingAnalysis) urls = re.findall(r'https?://[^\s<>"]+', body) prompt = f"""Analyze the following email for phishing indicators:HEADERS:{headers}BODY:{body}EXTRACTED URLS:{urls}Evaluate domain spoofing, urgency indicators, mismatch between link text and href destination, and overall intent.""" return structured_llm.invoke(prompt)if __name__ == "__main__": sample_headers = "From: IT Support <support@secure-update-login-portal.com>\nTo: victim@company.com\nSubject: URGENT: Password Expired" sample_body = "Your corporate password expires today. Click here to retain access: http://secure-update-login-portal.com/login" res = analyze_phishing_email(sample_headers, sample_body) print(f"Is Phishing: {res.is_phishing}") print(f"Action Item: {res.action_item}") print(f"Indicators: {res.suspicious_indicators}")






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