Overview
Exaforce integrates with Gmail to transform reported phishing emails from isolated alerts into comprehensive security investigations. By automatically enriching each reported email with link analysis, sender reputation, recipient behavior, and click tracking, Exaforce helps security teams rapidly distinguish genuine phishing campaigns from benign emails while building complete attack timelines that connect email threats to endpoint compromise, credential abuse, and more.
Exaforce correlates phishing reports with identity activity, endpoint behavior, and network intelligence to reveal who clicked malicious links, what happened after they clicked, and whether the incident represents isolated social engineering or part of a broader compromise.
How it works
Exaforce continuously monitors Gmail for user-reported phishing through native reporting mechanisms and security workflows. When an email is flagged, the platform automatically ingests message metadata, headers, sender information, embedded links and attachments, recipient lists, and delivery timestamps. This telemetry is immediately enriched with real-time analysis and correlated with activity across connected systems.
For each reported email, Exaforce performs comprehensive link analysis by extracting and following all URLs to determine their true destinations, checking domains and IPs against threat intelligence databases, identifying URL obfuscation, redirects, and cloaking techniques, and detecting credential harvesting pages, malware distribution sites, and phishing kits. The platform tracks which recipients clicked links by correlating timestamps from email delivery with subsequent browser activity, authentication attempts, and endpoint behavior visible through integrated security tools.
Sender reputation analysis provides immediate context by querying email authentication results (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), correlating sender IPs with AbuseIPDB and other reputation sources, identifying spoofed or look-alike domains, and surfacing prior campaigns from the same infrastructure. This multi-layered enrichment happens automatically within seconds of a phishing report, giving analysts immediate visibility into threat severity and required response.
Core capabilities
Email enrichment and link analysis
Exaforce parses message headers to identify authentication failures and suspicious routing, extracts and detonates embedded links to reveal destinations and multi-stage redirects, and analyzes attachments for malicious macros, executables, and exploits.
Victim identification and click tracking
The platform correlates email delivery with subsequent user activity to identify which recipients clicked on malicious links or signs of account compromise following interaction, and actions taken using potentially compromised credentials.
Sender reputation and infrastructure analysis
Each reported email is checked against threat intelligence sources for abuse history, evaluated for email authentication failures and domain impersonation, and correlated with historical campaigns from the same infrastructure.
Automated triage
Exaforce triage engine evaluates each report against sender patterns, link destinations, message content, and organizational context, then classifies reports as Needs Investigation, Benign, or False Positive based on threat indicators and business context.
Attack chain correlation
Exaforce connects phishing reports to downstream activity, including unusual sign-ins, endpoint detections, cloud API activity indicating account takeover, and lateral movement inconsistent with normal behavior.
Benefits
Exaforce reduces phishing triage time by automatically enriching reports with link analysis, sender reputation, and victim tracking. It improves investigations by correlating email threats with endpoint, identity, and cloud activity in unified timelines. The platform enables targeted response by identifying which users interacted with phishing content and what actions they took.