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Hello aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt about phishing. In this blogpost, you will learn about Desktop phishing.

What is Desktop phishing?

Desktop phishing is the same as phishing, the only difference being in the method hosting the files required for phishing. Whereas in phishing we upload our files to an external server, in desktop phishing we upload our files to the web server installed on our own desktop. Desktop phishing overcomes three disadvantages present in the traditional method of phishing.

One, however hard we may try, the URL will always looks suspicious in traditional method of phishing.

Two, modern day browsers are capable of detecting phishing sites.

Three, as soon as the webhosting provider detects that you are hosting a phishing webpage, he will suspend your account. This will most likely happen within 24 hours. Desktop phishing overcomes all these defects. So now, let’s see how to desktop phish. As already told, desktop phishing is same as traditional phishing, until the creation of phishing files which you can find here.Now Install Wamp Server on your Windows machine. Next, install a VPN on your system to keep your IP static. See here. We are going to host our phishing files on our desktop and redirect the victim to our site.

Copy our phishing files to the folder C:/wamp/www. This is the root directory of the Wamp server.

Here is the script of the “phish.php” we used.

Go to folder “C:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache 2.4.4/conf” and make changes to the ‘httpd.conf’ file as below. These changes give permission to external users to access your fake website.

Start your wamp server, open your browser and type “localhost” in the url to see if your phishing site is working. Then open Notepad and create a batch file as shown below. We need to send this file to the victim machine and make him execute it. See how? Make sure you replace the IP address below with one assigned by VPN.

What the above script does is it changes the hosts file in the victim’s system to redirect to your fake website when user tries to access Facebook. Now, what is hosts file?

Hosts file is a text file located in the folder “C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc” which resolves IP addresses associated with domain names.

Usually when we try to visit any website say www.google.com our system sends a query for it’s IP address to the DNS server. When we make an entry in the hosts file of our computer, the query is not sent to the DNS server. When the victim clicks on the executable sent by us, it changes the hosts file like below.

Now when victim types “www.facebook.com” in his browser, he is redirected to our wamp server. Notice that the URL looks completely genuine and the browser didn’t detect it as a phishing site.

When the unsuspecting victim enters his credentials,

a text file called pass .txt is created in the www directory.

Open the file and we can see the credentials.

That’s all in desktop phishing tutorial for beginners. See how to phish with Weeman Http server.

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous article, you learnt what is social engineering. In this article, you will learn in detail about Phishing. Phishing is one of the most popular social engineering techniques. What exactly is phishing? Phishing is an act of presenting a fake page resembling the original webpage you intend to visit with the sole intention of stealing your credentials. This post demonstrates phishing tutorial for beginners. Although we make a phishing page of Facebook in this tutorial, it can be used to make a phishing page of any website. So now let’s phish.

Open your browser, go to the Facebook website, Right click on the webpage and click on “view page source”.

The source of the web page is displayed in the browser. Right click on the page and click on “Save As”. Save the page as “index.html”on your computer.

Now open index.html using notepad and hit “CTRL+F”.In the Find box opened, type “action” and click on “Find Next”. Look at the value of action. This “action” specifies the website what to do after users enter credentials and submit those.

Now change the value of action to “phish.php”. We are doing this so when the user enters his credentials the page that loads will be “phish.php” and not the usual page Facebook loads.

Now let’s create the page phish.php. Open Notepad and type the following script into it and save it as “phish.php”. What this script does is it logs the user credentials and saves it to a file named “pass.txt”.

Now our files are ready. Next step is to upload these files to any free web hosting site available on the internet. Google for free web hosting sites, select any one of them(I selected bytehost7), create an account with username as close to Facebook as possible and delete the index.html file available in the htdocs folder. Then using Online File Management upload your own index.html and phish.php files to the htdocs folder. Your htdocs folder will look like below.

Let’s check if our phishing page is ready by typing the address of our site. If the page is like below, then our phishing page is working.

The next thing we have to do is to send address of our fake website to the victim. We will do this through sending him an email but in order for the victim not to smell something fishy, we will obfuscate the URL of the fake page we are about to send him. The sending email address should be as convincingly close to Facebook as possible.

When the victim clicks on the obfuscated URL, it will bring him to our fake site.

If the victim is not cautious enough as to observing the URL and enters his username and password, our attempt is a success. To show this, I will enter random values in both username field and password field and hit Enter.

Now a txt file with name pass.txt will be created in the htdocs folder containing both the username and the password.

Click on the file. We can see both the email and the password i have entered. The email is “don’t get hacked” and the password is “like me”.

See how to phish with Weeman HTTP Server and GoPhish.

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