April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 35m
English
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Browser hijacking
The goal with BeEF is to hook a browser. We'll need a victim's browser to visit a vulnerable website. The hooked browser then communicates to commands sent from the BeEF server. Then the hooked browser will make the reverse connection to the server of BeEF and we would have full control over the victim's computer. Look for a JavaScript file named hook.js, as you will need to get the victim to execute it in a vulnerable web application. Once it's hooked, we can apply various commands, such as:
- Webcam
- Screenshot
- Get all cookies
- Get visited URLs
- Grab Google Contacts
An Adobe Flash dialog box will appear asking the users to either allow or cancel. You can customize these dialog boxes to meet your social engineering for users ...