Analyzing Phishing Emails

An email is a stack of claims — who sent it, where it came from, that its links are safe — and phishing analysis is checking each claim against evidence the sender could not forge: the Received chain, the authentication results, and the true destination of every link and attachment. The From header is a display, not a fact. Anyone can type any address into it; your job is to find the evidence that agrees or disagrees.

When to Use

• A user reports a suspicious email and you need a verdict and IOCs
• You have a .eml or .msg file to analyze offline
• You are handed raw headers and asked whether a message is spoofed
• A message carries a link or attachment that needs safe triage
• A business email compromise, invoice-fraud, or vendor-impersonation case
• Confirming whether a domain or brand was spoofed against your users

When NOT to Use