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Google infrastructure redirect abuse — AMP cache, Translate proxy, or Firebase hosting used to launder phishing URLs

google-infrastructure-redirect

What this tier means

High-confidence threat indicator — phishing, impersonation, BEC, or scam pattern. Strong contributor to the trash decision.

How Gorganizer detects this

Attackers abuse Google's own infrastructure to launder phishing URLs through trusted domains. Three patterns: (1) google.com/amp/s/<attacker-domain> routes through Google's AMP cache, (2) translate.google.com/translate?u=<payload> proxies attacker content through Google Translate, (3) <name>.firebaseapp.com or <name>.web.app hosts phishing pages on Google Cloud. 63.3% of AMP-redirect phishing uses Google infrastructure (Cofense Q1 2025).

False-positive guard

Every signal in Gorganizer feeds a multi-module score — never a sole verdict. This is a threat-tier signal — it adds a strong contribution to the trash score. The full pipeline still requires convergence across multiple modules + a margin over the safety floor before deletion happens, and Gmail's trash (30-day recovery) is always used — never permanent delete.

About the scoring engine

Gorganizer's scoring engine emits over 1,800 signals across six modules — headers, sender, subject, body, attachments, and structural metadata. Every email is scored by every module independently; the final verdict requires multiple modules to agree and the trash score to beat the safety floor by a margin.

Sacred safety guards — never delete starred emails, replies, calendar invites, receipts/invoices, or attachments — apply unconditionally regardless of any signal.

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