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Sunday 28 December 2014

How to Hide or Conceal URL? For Beginners

How to Hide or Conceal URL?


As a continuation of tutorials on Phishing, we show you in this tutorial how to conceal a URL.That is, with the following techniques you can make a suspicious URL look much more trust able. For example, a URL likehttp://username353.000webhost.com/index.php can be made into a much cleaner and click able link as http://facebo0k.tk/. In this post, we shall explore all such possibilities with which you can deceive a user to click on a link of your choice.Though this technique can always be detected by a smart user, it is possible to get creative with these options by social engineering your victim.






URL Shortening


This method is probably the easiest. Let us assume you have a link like http://username353.000webhost.com/index.php which you wish to hide. The easiest way is to convert into a URL like this http://is.gd/facebook_offers, if you click on that link, it will automatically redirect you to http://username353.000webhost.com/index.php and an attentive user will not notice the URL change!

So, here are a few good URL shortening services.

  • is.gd - customizable URL link
  • goo.gl - google's official URL shortener, but not link customization
  • bit.ly - customizable URL link but a very famous website, less likely to deceive a user.
For more services, visit : http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/url-shortening-services-the-ultimate-list/ 

Custom Domain


Often, when big phishing scandals are going on worldwide where hackers acquire hundreds of thousands of login infos with the help of Phishing, it involves the use of an even more convincing link which can easily deceive, the users.

Paid Custom Domain - usually require you to pay for something like www.mywebsite.com along with that, you need a hosting. If you're familiar with usage of custom domains, then is not a problem.

Free Custom Domain - you can also free custom domain using a website called dot.tk . Therefore a URL likehttp://username353.000webhost.com/index.php will be converted to www.facebo0k.tk.

Hyperlink Masking


Many a times, you might want to include a link into an email or an webpage. In which case, you can simply use HTML tags in a smart way to misuguide the usre into what he is clicking.

For example, click on www.facebook.com. It goes to http://username353.000webhost.com/index.php.Here we made use of how a link is embedded in webpage.The code for such a link would be.

<a href="http://username353.000webhost.com/index.php">www.facebook.com</a>

iFrame Inclusion


In this technique we yet again use the help of HTML and include an iframe into a web page. For instance, go to this webpage that I created http://bragtools.com/iframe-demo/index.html. As you can see in that website, the URL of the website itself is different from the original domain www.trendztrending.net. Using this technique, you can include an iframe in any web page.

The code you need to use in the webpage is.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>iFrame Inclusion Demo</title>
        <style type="text/css">
            body, html
            {
                margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 100%; overflow: hidden;
            }

            #content
            {
                position:absolute; left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; top: 0px;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            <iframe width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" src="http://trendztrending.net" />
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

NOTE: The problem with iframe is that, you CANNOT redirect this URL to another, in this case, redirecting http://bragtools.com/iframe-demo/index.html to anything else is not possible, so If the user does realizes this at some of of time, he will become suspicious.



Enjoy..... :-P

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