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Search in xorlab helps you find any message in seconds using intuitive filters, tags, time ranges, and wildcards, and keeps track of your recent queries.

Key features

  • Autocomplete Suggestions: As you type, the search bar provides real-time suggestions, reducing the need to memorize search syntax.
  • Filter Options: You can easily filter your results by sender, recipient, subject, or other key attributes by selecting options from a dropdown menu.
  • Time Range Selection: The search bar includes a built-in time range selector to refine your searches by date without manually entering date strings.
  • Wildcard Characters: Wildcards are automatically supported with ? matching a single character and * matching zero or more characters.
  • Tag-based Search: Easily search and aggregate emails using case-insensitive tags (e.g., #phishing, #highrisk) to filter or group emails. For the complete list, please see Tags.
  • Recent Searches: Access the four last searches by clicking the search bar, allowing easy recall of previous queries for ongoing investigations or repetitive tasks.
  • Campaign Creation: If a search query is Campaign compatible, you can click the icon in the search bar to directly turn the query into an adaptive policy.
  • Save Searches: There’s also an icon in the search bar that enables you to save the search query for later use.

Search query basics

You can build powerful search queries using a combination of filters, verdicts and tags, and simple logic like and, or, and not.

How the logic works

Search queries are made up of statements — simple conditions like filters (status:open) or tags (#quarantine) — connected using logical operators:
  • and: both conditions must match
  • or: at least one condition must match
  • not: exclude anything that matches the expression

For example:

#domainonlyinbound #inc #untrusted not(#crm or #marketing or #newsletter) The strongest operator is not followed by and and then by or. Multiple statements without any operator are always treated as and.

Email attributes

Every email has base attributes automatically set by xorlab, such as the sender, recipient, and timestamp. You can search using these attributes with the syntax attribute:value.

Senders and recipients

Multi-tenant

Direction

Date and time

Tags

xorlab Security Platform enriches processed emails with tags to simplify correlation and retrieval.

Scores

xorlab Security Platform generates several scores for each processed email. Each score is a function of the organization’s email history and the email being processed.

Verdicts

Verdict confidences

To search for emails with a certain verdict confidence, you need to make use of the rule: search feature described further in this article. The verdicts that are not listed in the following table do not have different confidences.

Processing status

Email content

Topics

The topic keyword allows searching for topics found in any part (body, subject and attachment) of the email.

Body

The body keyword allows searching topics in the email’s plaintext or HTML body parts.

Subject

xorlab Security Platform extracts links from the email body and attached documents.

Embedded domains

xorlab Security Platform extracts domains from the links it finds in the email body and attachments. This includes domains that surface in network activity during dynamic file analysis.

Email attachments

xorlab Security Platform supports file name and file hash filters as well as specific file analysis verdicts.

Email headers

xorlab Security Platform supports searching across the message header name and values.

Predefined filters

Queries using rules